21-06-2015, 01:13 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:Danny Jarman Wrote:The past few days have been a scary example of the pure power of the media.
This is a Gadaffi-esque witch hunt. You would be forgiven to think Blatter is the 2nd coming of Hitler by reading the news in the last few days...
For me the elephant in the room remains the far east betting syndicates. Buying a world cup ever four years is small fare compared to the billions dropped each weekend on European football games, and especially in the premier league. The latter still have the media working their corner to make them appear blushing virgins in a monastery, when all the evidence points to them being thoroughly corrupt. The retired referee Howard Webb is the sole person appointing refs to officiate at premier league games week in week out. There is no oversight. And according to Omerta, 18 top games were fixed - they traded on these 18 and won on every one of them. Interestingly enough the Omerta's trading is based on mimicking the corruption in the marketplace and he's on a winning streak because of this and yet, lo and hehold! " Sportradar, Federbet, Early Warning, Interpol, Europol and the FA's Sports Betting Integrity Unit (sic) somehow fail to spot..." these fixes.
Yup
Although I'm sure Europol and Early Warning do pick them up, there's just nothing they can do...they are utterly powerless. The betting evidence, although we all know it's damning, isn't enough to prosecute or take action.
The syndicates even got their own world cup when it came to Korea. Now that was a farce of epic proportions.