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As legit as Leicester winning the league

Football is like eastenders, is like wwe, is like politics.... So yes is like xfiles too. The outcome is determined before the game is played

The ten Select Group Premier League referees who have been so biased in favour of Leicester City this season have also been targeting the Foxes four primary pre-season title competitors - Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United. The Select Group 10 are Mark Clattenburg, Jonathan Moss, Martin Atkinson, Mike Dean, Michael Oliver, Craig Pawson, Lee Mason, Anthony Taylor, Andre Marriner and Neil Swarbrick. On Leicester City games, these officials have overseen 16 wins 7 draws and 2 defeats with 9 penalty/red card differentials in favour and two against (9-2). This is an average of 2.20 points per game. On Leicester City games where other referees have officiated, the Foxes have had 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat with 2 penalty/red card differentials in favour and one against (2-1). This is an average of 1.83 points per game. On Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United games, these officials have overseen 35 wins, 27 draws and 27 defeats with 11 penalty/red card differentials in favour and 13 against (11-13). This is an average of 1.48 points per game. On Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United games where other referees have officiated, these 4 teams have had 20 wins, 5 draws and 5 defeats with 5 penalty/red card differentials in favour and one against (5-1). This is an average of 2.17 points per game. To put it another way, here is a tabulation of the projected points totals (as of this date) with the Select Group 10 and with other officials for the five clubs as well as the actual points totals: Arsenal - 49 points with Select Group 10; 71 points with other referees; 55 points actual total. Man City - 44 points with Select Group 10; 71 points with other referees; 51 points actual total. Chelsea - 37 points with Select Group 10; 53 points with other referees; 41 points actual total. Man Utd - 48 points with Select Group 10; 56 points with other referees; 50 points actual total. Leicester - 68 points with Select Group 10; 57 points with other referees; 66 points actual total. We expect these machinations to continue to the inevitable conclusion of a Premier League title for Leicester City... ... the Leicester City who have been systemically aided by pgMOB Select Group referees, ... the Leicester City who moved from least fit Premier League team to second most fit in a matter of days http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2016/04/02/premier-league-stars-given-banned-drugs-by-british-doctor/, ... the Leicester City who are illegally 20% owned by a secret investor, ... the Leicester City who were traded upon by insiders at 5,000-1 pre-season, ... the Leicester City whose success marks the end of legitimacy in English football.

And thats the bottom line because Tony Moanero says so. Close the forum

Anyone who has any clue whatsoever about football knows that Mignolet is as bent as they come

Yes I can How's 1992??

Is anyone going to address the facts listed in the post rather than just attack?

Yes Captain

Leicester City in the Premier League prior to Howard Webb selecting match officials: 4 wins 7 draws 18 losses Penalty differentials: 2 in favour 3 against Red Card differentials: 2 in favour 2 against Leicester City in the Premier League since Howard Webb selects match officials: 24 wins 10 draws 4 losses Penalty differentials: 10 in favour 1 against Red Card differentials: 4 in favour 1 against This breakpoint did not occur in the summer when Claudio Ranieri became manager but from the very first round of matches when Webb selected the officials - Mark Clattenburg (who had given Leicester two penalties plus a red card against Man Utd earlier in the season) being chosen for the West Ham match which started the run of 7 wins 1 draw and 1 loss in final 9 games of last season. _________________________________________________________________________________ This season Leicester City have the third worst possession stats in the Premier League. Leicester City also have the lowest pass completion rate in the Premier League and the fifth worst in the top five European leagues (98 teams). So they hardly ever have the ball... ... and when they do have it, they can't pass it straight. And yet Leicester City are going to win the Premier League title. How? In 25 years of recording data on the top European leagues, there has never been a team even remotely as favoured by referees as Leicester City have been this season. 21 referees have officiated in the Premier League in the last two seasons. The following officials have not refereed any Leicester City games since Webb took over - Attwell, Friend, Hooper, R. Madley, A. Madley, Scott, Stroud, Dowd and Foy (although Foy has now retired). All Leicester City games have been shared around the other 12 officials. Why? Taylor and Dean have been given four games each - resulting in 8 victories for Leicester City - and Jonathan Moss has overseen 6 wins and a draw in his seven appearances as referee or 4th official. It also needs to be explained how Leicester City, whose players unusually are given two full days off every week (more than any other team), are able to have three players (one of whom is 29 years old) in the top four fastest sprints in the EPL this season. Leicester City train less but run fastest! How? Leicester City were the least fit Premier League side last season prior to this conspiracy being established. How have they moved from the least fit to the fastest? _________________________________________________________________________________ Spurs, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Southampton, West Ham, Everton and Liverpool have reasons for a protest against this systemic uproar impacting upon their EPL title, Champions League or Europa League chances. Jose Mourinho, Chelsea, Gestifute and Jorge Mendes also have a claim after the same grouping of referees targeted the club until Mourinho was sacked. At the same time as Chelsea experienced 8 defeats and 3 draws in 14 games with the Dirty Dozen referees, they inexplicably won 4 out of 6 Champions League games to finish top of their group. And take Jamie Vardy. Prior to Webb selecting match officials Vardy had scored 2 goals in 25 Premier League games... ... and since Webb took on responsibilities, our speedy friend has scored 22 goals in 38 games. In good time, we will release our analyses of the refereeing of the defences marking Vardy in this latter window. A number of BBC Match of the Day and BT Sport insiders have considerable trading positions (at up 5,000-1 outright) on the Foxes winning the title and/or finishing in the Champions League places. These trades were placed before the season began. It is worthy of mention that these are good markets to be in when BT Sport's resident referee is, of course... ... Howard Webb. But BT Sport's Michael Owen (horserace owner, professional gambler and former bookies' runner for the England team) helps to put our minds at ease by informing us that matchfixing "is not a huge issue... When someone says matchfixing to me, I automatically think of 22 players fixing the result... but [it] is not necessarily people colluding at the highest levels to rig games." Or listen to BT Sport and Leicester City ambassador Gary Lineker: "It could quite possibly be the greatest sporting upset of all time if Leicester won the Premier League from where they were a year ago. It's a quite staggering story." It certainly is. But not a Hollywood feelgood movie. Not a fairy tale. But something altogether more murky.

#LCFC in #EPL before Howard Webb took over ref selection: 4 wins 7 draws 18 losses Since he took over: 21 wins 9 draws 3 losses

#LCFC in #EPL before Howard Webb took over ref selection: 4 wins 7 draws 18 losses Since he took over: 21 wins 9 draws 3 losses

Maybe thats what his actual role is... and therefore he is doing a very good job?

As long as you understand that bookmakers you bet with on our high streets take all their money and use it to gamble with on Asian markets.... you will begin to understand the swindle.

If referees in the Premier League earn a couple of grand per week while officiating on matches with global betting volumes of £5 billion, If referees for all Premier League games are selected by just one individual; If referees work with agents to promote the agents’ clients on the field of play, If referees are at the root of most matchfixing crises: If bookmakers accept insider trading merely treating it as competitive advantage in the marketplace, If bookmakers trade such knowledge at dark pool poker tables of corruption; If bookmakers own football clubs and, on occasions, coerce players to perform appropriately, If bookmakers create spot markets to corrupt the minutiae of in-play actions: If agents are largely non-regulated and are the primary lubrication of criminalities in the sport, If agents work together in a fragmented cartel to pool ownership of players to solicit matchfixing; If agents are engaging in third party ownership and the trafficking of children from developing countries, If agents pay backhanders to managers to pick certain players for mutual benefit: If institutional bodies decide on winners and losers according to private agendas of power and marketing, If institutional bodies incorporate systemic corruptions at top levels of the game; If institutional bodies established to monitor insider trading and matchfixing are infrastructurally compromised, If there are no global, EU or governmental actions to confront these corruptions: If clubs, owners, managers, referees, agents, administrators and players bet on the outcomes of games, If clubs exert power over lesser clubs in the same leagues with agreed outcomes being the norm; If clubs focus more on unearthing lucrative marketing deals than on winning trophies, If clubs built on debt can only survive by matchfixing their games: If coercion, threats, menaces, violence and murders are the primary modes of controlling non-acquiescent individuals, If transnational organised crime and global mafiosi are actively involved at all levels of corruption; If suitcases of cash and offshore illicit money flows are the norm in financial transactions, If there are administrators who facilitate these corruptions based on laissez faire capitalism: If the Fit-and-Proper-Person Test results in clubs being owned by entirely unfit and entirely improper individuals, If owners take over clubs to asset strip and to monetise the debris via inversion capitalism; If money laundering, fraud, utilisation of offshore financial centres and beneficial ownership is the norm, If clubs are held offshore for tax and/or regulatory avoidance to the benefit of the owners: If spurious and fake arguments are repeatedly made against the use of video technology in the sport, If there are no laws against insider trading and no Commitment of Traders’ reports; If there is widespread use of performance enhancing substances and their related masking agents, If the market capitalisation of major clubs is dwarfed by global betting turnover on any of their matches: If fans and the public are kept in the dark about all these machinations due to a blackout by the mainstream media, If there is nowhere for whistleblowers to go with information about corruptions; If the reward for being a criminalised player is a lifelong role as a media analyst or commentator, If huge fortunes are being made while meritocracy is always trumped by the performativity of corrupt practices: Then FOOTBALL IS FIXED as is everything within it, And – what is more – ’tis merely high stakes poker, my son. Bold and italliced part particulary pertinent on this here forum.

Last seasons Premier League winners, Chelsea, pocketed around £99 million in total TV/prize money revenue from winning the title.... global betting markets on single live Premier League games can dwarf that amount almost 10 fold..... so easily manipulated. Most of not all football clubs are owned, part-owned or at the very least sponsored by/affiliated with bookmakers..... conflict of interest much?

Of the 10 Premier League matches this midweek, 8 were matchfixing events. Eight!!!!! Now you might think that Sportradar (who gather 'intelligence' on suspect betting markets), the FA Sport Betting Integrity Forum, Federbet, Early Warning Systems GmbH (who claim to spot evidence of matchfixing), Europol/Interpol and members of the UK mainstream media (some of whom have first hand knowledge of these rigged events) would be disclosing this mass corruption to the fans. Dream on. And to understand why... ... read on. ____________________________________________________________________________ Firstly, let's take a glance at the bodies allegedly addressing matchfixing and money laundering in world sport. 1. Federbet - set up by bookmakers for bookmakers. Their biggest scoop this season was the detection that Sporting Clube de Portugal versus Skenderbeu in the Europa League (and three other of the Albanian team's games) were fixed. As virtually every Skenderbeu match is corrupted, this hardly adds to the public's knowledge of the vice of matchfixing. This selective disclosure suggests that matchfixing higher up the food chain is only disclosed to Federbet's partners or that Federbet are entirely incompetent - either logic undermines their raison d'être. 2. The FA's Sport Betting Integrity Forum - the futility of this talking shop is proved by some of the membership. The British Horse Racing Authority (conspicuous money impacts on outcome in UK racing); the England and Wales Cricket Board (matchfixing in English cricket dominated by Dubai/Mumbai mafia); the FA (not fit for purpose as shown in numerous previous posts); the Tennis Integrity Unit (see Djokovic revelations below); 5 bookmakers (most of whom allow insider trading); Association British Bookmakers; Association of Chief Police Officers, Police Scotland and National Crime Agency (none of whom have disclosed any of the huge body of fixed football matches in the Barclay's Premier League, the Skybet Championship or the Ladbrokes Scottish Premier League). FASBIF makes the FCA look robust! 3. Europol/Interpol - Ronald Noble, former Secretary-General of Interpol, is exposed in Andrew Jennings' book 'The Dirty Game' as, at the very least, a facilitator of the burying of bad matchfixing news relating to FIFA. Additionally, Europol direct any enquiries regarding matchfixing back to the local police authorities, like any Albanian citizen is going to go to Tirana police to report Skenderbeu games! 4. Early Warning Systems - established by that body of colossal integrity FIFA to expose matchfixing, yet somehow have failed to spot the three World Cup matchfixing events disclosed by Jennings and the dozens of events (including 5 at World Cup Finals in Brazil 2014) disclosed byFootball is Fixed. 5. Sportradar - claim to reach deep into the underground markets but merely skim the surface of the Dark Pools that dominate matchfixing globally. When Sportradar detect a suspect event, do they go to the media? No fucking chance. In effect, they sell their analyses (sic) back to the sports betting industry so that markets might be made more efficient and mugs might be mugged - the suspect markets aren't suspended but traded aggressively with patsies being unaware that their leisure punt is a certain loser. No improvement in integrity. No support for the punter. One of Sportradar's marketing slogans is "realise opportunities - everywhere" which says it all really. Let's take tennis as an example. On the eve of the ITF Australian Tennis Open in Melbourne last month Novak Djokovic disclosed that he had been offered considerable money to throw a tennis game earlier in his career. The ITF and other tennis boards quickly moved to state that there had been no suppression of evidence of historical matchfixing in tennis http://www.itftennis.com/media/221271/221271.pdf. But Australia's anti-doping chief Richard Ings has claimed that when he worked at the ATP tennis organisation, the body buried a report disclosing extensive matchfixing in the sport over a decade ago. Four Corners, an Australian investigative journalist group, disclosed on ABC website yesterday that more than 40 tennis matches were flagged as matchfixing events in just three months last year http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-01/40-professional-tennis-matches-flagged-for-match-fixing/7127240 Furthermore, 350 tennis professionals are on a blacklist of matchfixers. One of Sportradar's partners is the ITF. So when Sportradar detect corruption, one of the following scenarios is played out: a) Sportradar inform governing body who then take no action or, b) Sportradar inform bookmakers who trade the information and adjust their internal markets but make no public disclosure or, c) Sportradar inform both governing bodies and bookmakers and all enjoy privileged inside information at the public's expense with no release of the corruption to the press. Whichever of these constructs is the reality, Sportradar are exposed as charlatans who are a problematical input to integrity in world sport. As they scream on their website - ITF and Sportradar: A Unique Partnership. Additionally, virtually all tennis coaches in the UK have contracts with British territory bookmakers that enables private information regarding player form, injury, psychological state, fitness to be shared for mutual gain. Yet players themselves and family members/friends have to sign non-disclosure contracts to prevent them from utilising private information in the betting markets! Top-down insider trading is allowed... ... bottom up trading is banned.

THE STORY OF SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION IN PREMIER LEAGUE JUST GETS BIGGER AND BIGGER What does George Osborne know about systemic match fixing in the Premier League? Why was Ian Livingston (then CEO of BT) elevated to the House of Lords at launch of BT Sport when just 48 years old? What hidden strategies were undertaken by Baron Livingston of Parkhead when Minister of State for Trade and Investment? Why did George Osborne above make a donation of £3 million to train Chinese football coaches? What does David "the Right Thing" Cameron know about all this? Why was Sun Jihai installed in the National Football Museum Hall of Fame? What role have board members of the major Scottish football club played in the systemic corruption of Premier League matches? Why was Baron Livingston made Minister of State for Trade and Investment when he still possessed £20 million of shares in BT? What steps did David "the Right Thing" Cameron take to avoid conflicts of interest when the Baron oversaw the sector in which he owned such a quantity of shares? The share price of BT rose 26% in the 17 months while the Baron was Minister of State having risen by only 11% in the previous six-and-a-half years. How? Why has Baron Livingston of Parkhead's Wikipedia page been intriguingly adjusted this morning (following publication of this post)? Why does Baron Livingston hate the poor?

FIFA is essentially a private governance regime that actively and successfully claims autonomy from public authorities. They literally make their own laws. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Until I see charges on match fixing and insider trading I fear the motivation for the arrests is purely political.

Not before time.... Fifa, UEFA, the FA..... Time for them all to face the music and show the world what sport really is. Sadly it won't happen though, probably just a dramatic way of getting rid of Sepp or one of his rivals.

Expensive??

Next seasons winners of the Champions League will pocket £71 million there or thereabouts in total prize money. Whoever finishes bottom of the Prem when the new TV deal kicks in gets £99m. The money in owning a footbal club in the Premier League now even compared to when FSG bought us is staggering and only getting bigger. The cost of being competetive footballwise outweighs the cost of stability in the ridiculously lucrative league. The parachute payments for relegated teams means that the owners of relegated clubs are coining it too. The clubs that yo-yo do very well financially indeed.

I hope this is wrong but I fear exactly the same. Someone grateful to have Liverpool on their CV, no chance of ruffling the owners feathers.

What if they don't need to change to fulfil the goals of the owners?

Maybe the ones who are run as football clubs whose foremost aim is success, the ones run as businesses have all kinds of money tied up in all kinds of shit. It's a long term investment. The annual profits are nothing to these owners.