The new subscription structure of Football Is Fixed includes provision for a couple of Flashback posts per month, in order that we may either demonstrate our prescience or allow for the continuation of the arguments set out in the original post.

On the day after Richard Scudamore forced Brian Barwick out of the FA, it seemed relevant to go back a year to last August when we had already had more than enough of the Murky One. Click to continue reading...

"At what dilution of cash to content can you no longer taste the sport in sport?" - Gary Imlach.

Is it lonely up there on your pedestal, Mr Scudamore?
The timing of media leaks always indicate the hidden agendas of the institutions behind the leaking process.
And yesterday's leak that the FA have found Portsmouth FC and football agent Willie McKay guilty of breaking the rules of the game with regard to two transfers of Benjani was certainly timed for minimum media impact. Click to continue reading...

There are, undoubtedly, some characters in the game who are more murky than Peter Kenyon.
But, despite this proviso, you wouldn't want him going out with your daughter, would you?

This week Kenyon, who tries to justify the stability of one of the most psychopathic entities in world football, decided that it was a suitable time to lecture others from his House of Cards. Click to continue reading...

There is nothing more frustrating for the purveyors of a fake reality than a real Reality threatening to block out the projected spectacular one. When such a loss of control of the spectaclised media agenda is brought to our attention, there needs to be a concerted strategy from all interested power parties to alleviate the potential damage to the branded pseudo-entertainment delivered for our delectation. Click to continue reading...

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"Its the biggest load of nonsense and its doing my head in" was one of Harry Redknapp's statements regarding his current legal situation. The "it" in question is the law and 'Arry evidently feels he exists above the confines of such restrictions.
And, its a family affair. In The Sun, ex-model son Mark squealed: "Someone is out to get dad". Click to continue reading...

On the last two weekends, Sky's Super Sunday matches have yielded incredibly corrupt global betting events that clearly exhibit the power play between the different market makers as they seek and attempt to gain proprietary control of these high profile matches.
The key aspect to Sky's heavily biased and manipulative televised output is their over confidence in the security of their control of the events under their warped jurisdiction. Click to continue reading...

The Premier League chief executive, Richard Scudamore, in his increasingly desperate attempts to escape censure over his extensive mismanagement of our national game, continues to paint himself further into a corner from which there is no exit available which might allow his stature to be maintained and his career in football to continue.
We have highlighted in numerous previous posts the inappropriate roles undertaken by Scudamore with respect to the Quest inquiry into bungs in football, the West Ham United scandal, the fit and proper persons test for Premiership team ownership and the entirely invalid links being developed between the Premiership and the global football betting markets. Click to continue reading...

On Tuesday, an arrest warrant was issued in Thailand for Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife over illegal land deals in Bangkok.
On Wednesday, Richard Scudamore (the chief executive of the Premier League) sits next to Shinawatra and his posse of mercenary bodyguards for the Premiership match between Man City and Derby.
Scudamore possesses no expert inside knowledge of the corruption repeatedly perpetrated by Shinawatra in his homeland and he has studiously ignored the representations from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International regarding extra-judicial killings. Click to continue reading...

In the bad old days, ownership of English football clubs was a fiefdom whereby local bigwigs could demonstrate their importance to the community by piloting the local football team in their sporting endeavours. This breed of owner varied from the thoroughly incompetent to the sociopathic, from the true hobbyist to the man on the make. The more financially focused of these individuals are now sitting on the oodles of cash that their ownership bestowed. Click to continue reading...

On Friday July 13th, Football Is Fixed posted that the Carlos Tevez transfer was a done deal with the only remaining obstacle being how to construct a "reality" that would accommodate the multifarious public stances taken by the protagonists. That the final resolution has taken until yesterday to complete was solely a result of further non-strategic foot dragging by the Premier League. Click to continue reading...

With just over a week to the commencement of the new gambling season, the initial influx of the summer transfers have arrived and an early assessment of the impact of both the increased television money and the incoming breed of hyper owners may be made. The positive configuration of a non World Cup/Euro summer with a massive new television deal and lots of hot money from interesting sources sloshing around has yielded informative patterns. Click to continue reading...

Richard Scudamore continues backtracking, covering over his and the Premier League's trails, in an increasingly desperate attempt to emerge from the various scandals that slosh around his/their ankles with a modicom of professionalism still in place.
Having only supported the publication of the Quest inquiry after the arrest of the still unknown 61 year old in May for money laundering, Scudamore has lost more control of the whole bungs process with the City of London police raids on Glasgow Rangers, Newcastle United and Portsmouth. Click to continue reading...

With the Quest inquiry, the City of London police raids on three clubs, the death of Woolmer, the Premier League/West Ham fiasco, Poll's retiring refrains and Shinawatra, the bookmakers together with their client regulatory bodies must be delighted that the focus on corruption has moved out of their territory and over to Le Tour de France.
The use of Performance Enhancing Substances (PESs) is common in most sports. Click to continue reading...

As absolute power corrupts absolutely, there must be concerns about FIFA and, in particular, Sepp Blatter. At the recent FIFA Congress in Zurich, Blatter was reelected unopposed for a further four years of omnipotence as president of the world governing body.
Blatter exerts a vice-like grip over FIFA with a number of his own men in charge of the regional affiliations (think Jack Warner at CONCACAF or Michel Platini at UEFA, for example) and his strategic planning, in that such planning exists, purely targets the maintenance of control by buying off just enough of the FIFA family with his complex and often contradictory edicts. Click to continue reading...

Being in Glasgow on the day that Ibrox is raided by the City of London Police is, as a Celtic fan, a proper grin. The fact that Newcastle, Souness and Portsmouth are also being rightfully and properly investigated only adds to a general air of slightly malicious good humour. Undoubtedly, the raids are scratching the surface of the corruption endemic in the English and, to a lesser extent, the British game. Click to continue reading...