Dysfunction And Betting Patterns In North East Football

Newcastle United 

The Magpies have just appointed a manager who has utterly failed in his last four jobs at Wolfsburg, Nottingham Forest, Twente Enschede and Derby County.
Mike Ashley has quadrupled the Wally with the Brolly's earnings and given him a place on the board.
Newcastle had a perfectly good manager in Pardew, replaced him with an incompetent in Carver and have now taken self-harming to new levels with the employment of McClaren.
Perhaps Ashley is distracted by Rangers?

How has this come to pass?
McClaren is the lowest rated manager in all of the major European leagues according to our proprietary Managerial Sabermetrics Index.
Where is the meritocracy?

We are sure that McClaren is a man of honour but suspicious betting patterns surface (absolutely by chance, of course) at each club that he manages.

We will be applying particular attention to insider trading emanating from St James' Park next season.

Sunderland 

Sunderland are also self-harming in the managerial department. First they appointed the racist buffoon from Uruguay, Gus Poyet. Not only is this man dishonest and economical with any semblance of truth, he also periodically managed to make the Black Cats run very fast indeed as he managed to keep the team in the EPL in 13/14 with the help of certain pgMOB officials. Previously, at Brighton and Hove Albion, all sorts of shenanigans surfaced as strategy.
Vicente Rodriguez on Gus Poyet: "He is the worst person I've come across in football. For me, he is a selfish person, very egocentric... I have seen things here [Brighton & Hove Albion] that I have never seen in my career."
We advised Poyet for a short window in season 13/14. We sent him a video clip of Sunderland reserve Duncan Watmore during his time at Altrincham (see below). Poyet was dismissive responding: "... lot to improve especially in understanding of the game." Poyet loaned Watmore out to Hibernian.
After the loan was over, Watmore remained stuck in Sunderland's U21 team while Poyet continued to fail and was sacked.

And Watmore won Barclays Premier League U21 Player of the Season award!

Moreover, Sunderland are now managed by Dick Advocaat.
Former Rangers manager Advocaat was the Zenit manager during with highly suspicious UEFA Cup Final against Rangers in 2008.

"Leading Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzón, famous for investigating Pinochet and Argentinian war criminals, Henry Kissinger and American war criminals in Guantanamo, has had 20 members of the leading and global Russian underworld gang, Tambovskaya-Malyshevskaya, arrested in Spain... Garzón has phone intercepts where Gennadios Petrov, the gang leader, discussed the buying of the UEFA Cup Semi Final 2nd Leg against FC Bayern." There was other evidence that the shenanigans stretched to the Final (which would have helped Rangers' cash flow crisis somewhat) (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/fixing-of-glasgow-rangers-v-zenit-st.html)

We will be applying particular attention to insider trading emanating from The Stadium of Light next season.

Middlesbrough

'Boro missed out on direct promotion due to a certain football agent falling for our sting operation in relation to his inappropriate and illegal linkage with a pgMOB Select Group referee and the pgMOB administrator who selects referees.

In a short-sighted non-strategic attempt to be a clever little man, the agent self-harmed resulting in Middlesbrough missing out on the £100m promotion bonus and the multitude of clients under this particular agent's ownership at the club having their careers decelerated.

Key Sports Management for whom this agent is a director claim to be "always transparent and honest in their dealings". As this agent is a professional gambler who fixes our realities for his proprietary gain, this statement would appear to be opaque and dishonest.

Key Sports Management
They are Legion Worldwide
They do not forgive
They do not forget
But we are already in them

We will be applying particular attention to insider trading emanating from the Riverside next season.

BT Sport Galacticos

Most football analysts have decided that Real Madrid's strategy of buying Galacticos (overpriced, overpaid players from selected overrated agencies) is the road to financial underperformance and, in the end, ruin.

In the 15 years since this buy high/ sell low strategy was instigated, Real Madrid have won just 5 out of 15 La Liga titles and two Champions League titles - in previous fifteen year window, these totals were 7 and 2 respectively.

BT Sport are going down the same route - overpaying for 'first tier' names thinking that this makes up for the abundance of decidedly second tier matches.
With the news that BT Sport are to charge customers an extra £5 per month for full Champions League coverage because the company overpaid for the rights to cover the tournament in the bidding war with Sky Sports, we should look at the BT Sport Galacticos.

* Michael Owen - Elaborate owner of racehorses and professional gambler.

* Gary Lineker - Elaborate seller of crisps with a keen interest in tax.

* Steve McManaman - Elaborate former business partner of convicted money-launderer Carson Yeung.

* Robbie Savage - Elaborate ambassador for William Hill bookmakers.

* Clare Balding - Elaborate niece of a Timeform squiggle horserace trainer who interviews people of dubious countenance.

* David James - Elaborate bankrupt involved in some 'interesting integrity' matches during playing career.

* James Richardson - Elaborate talking head linked to Guardian newspaper.

* David Ginola - Elaborate frontman for Paddy Power bookmakers.

* Steve Gerrard - Elaborate alleged racist and some other things too.

BT Sport - a bunch of sharp-suited millionaires trying to hide their historical crimes at the expense of the game while burying deep their Diplock gold.

BT Sport are known for paying over the odds to attract 'talent'.
When the bubble of corruption bursts, BT Sport's cashflow is going to look like a car crash.

The Issues With Mark Clattenburg

"Was it a battle between betting markets that saw Jon Moss selected for FA Cup Final ahead of Mark Clattenburg?" 

As readers of Football is Fixed blog will understand, Jon Moss should never have been given the 2015 FA Cup Final considering his historical bias towards Arsenal and the disciplinary action taken against him during the 2014/15 season.
Other top flight and junior referees were almost unanimous in their suggestion that not only was the Moss selection a disgrace but also that the best referee for the FA flagship event would have been Mark Clattenburg (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/what-other-referees-think-of.html).
So why wasn't he selected?

We have already given details in the above mentioned post regarding the selection of Moss, his in-match decision-making, Moss officiating 10/10 Arsenal wins (only 4 at home), the shenanigans in the Gunners v WBA game that gave Theo Walcott his FA Cup Final place concurrently with his negotiations via Key Sports Management over a new contract and the fact that the outcome was in the betting markets pre-match (i.e. there was insider trading on the match).

The 13 men and women who make up the FA's Referees' Committee select the FA Cup Final referee as opposed to just one individual selecting referees for Premier League games (Howard Webb).
Clattenburg has officiated at top level UEFA and FIFA events whereas Moss has never even officiated a Top Four match in the EPL. And then there is MOBGATE (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/mobgate-5.html).

In 2005 and 2007, Clattenburg was one of the two pgMOB referees selected to officiate at the Premier League Asia Trophy (in Thailand and Hong Kong respectively). The latter tournament took place between 24th and 27th of July just one month after the convicted fraudster from Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, had purchased Manchester City. At the time of the purchase Shinawatra was in exile from his Thai homeland so he easily passed Richard Scudamore's Fit And Proper Person's Test (FPPT). Scudamore even sat next to Shinawatra at the first Manchester City home match under the Shinawatra regime.

                                     Scudamore And Shinawatra - Psychopathic Money Lust

Under Shinawatra, Mark Clattenburg showed an obviously unconscious bias towards Manchester City, a bias which bizarrely totally inversed after Shinawatra sold the club in September 2008. It was also Clattenburg who was selected to model the new AirAsia pgMOB referee kit alongside Shinawatra at the start of the 07/08 EPL season (http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/eight-days-in-life-of-fascist.html).

Fast forward to the season just ended and we find Mr Clattenburg having an interesting role in the affairs of Leicester City (owned by Thai company King Power). On the first two occasions Clattenburg officiated the Foxes, the club won 2 of their only 5 EPL victories achieved by April 4th - the first match versus Manchester United saw the visitors lose 5-3 via two penalties (one of which was entirely fake), a red card and a goal scored after the ball had gone out of play. All professional traders and bookies understood that the pre-match market  on this game was indicative of a fixed match with very key insider money surfacing against Manchester United in the hour leading up to kick off.

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So Moss or Clattenburg...
... an overweight rock or a bewigged hard place.

Or perhaps it still hangs over Clattenburg that he was banned from refereeing for 8 months in 08/09 due to business debts, his personal life and alleged threats made to the family of a former business partner by making the following statement in an email "... taking me to court might cause your family some pain."
At the time, a former business associate of Clattenburg claimed the referee owed more than £170,000 including non-payment of PAYE, HMRC and VAT.

But of course, in ScudamoreWorld, the theme park of systemic corruption, the FA Cup is merely seen as just another competition on which to hang football out to dry.