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In ya pop Partridge said:
He's doing the right thing.

He's basically telling the players, "Buck your ideas up, or I'm going to treat you like a Big Sam relegation squad."

Hopefully, it has the desired effect.
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You'll be playing park the bus football before March bruv.
 
PISKIE said:
Oh I can. I'll go and take a peek in a bit :)
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Apparantly the spuds have gone full on Scouse now with the conspiracy theories.
The FA is corrupt, everyone is being bribed to make sure Liverpool win the league etc etc
Its all a big cover up yadda yadda
 
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Bodinki said:
Apparantly the spuds have gone full on Scouse now with the conspiracy theories.
The FA is corrupt, everyone is being bribed to make sure Liverpool win the league etc etc
Its all a big cover up yadda yadda
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Sweet, sounds like a right laugh <laugh>

I'll take a look later.
 
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PISKIE said:
You'll be playing park the bus football before March bruv.
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If it gets us results, it will serve its purpose as a starting platform.

If we are to dominate the league, we need to start somewhere.
 
I remember similar bullshit coming from their board 7 and a half years ago when we won the CL final.
A few of them suggested that Arjen Robben had been bribed to miss the penalty in extra time for Bayern <laugh>

And they weren't kidding either! <doh>
 
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Bodinki said:
I remember similar bullshit coming from their board 7 and a half years ago when we won the CL final.
A few of them suggested that Arjen Robben had been bribed to miss the penalty in extra time for Bayern <laugh>

And they weren't kidding either! <doh>
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Is that different to chelsea conspiracy loons who claimed UEFA were determined to stop chelsea winning the CL back in the early 2000s?
When they claimed refs were told to give decisions to Barcelona or Liverpool in those semi finals?

Would say I am asking for a friend but we all know I ain't got any so am gonna be honest amd say thst I am asking cos I am bitter that my team's turned to ****...<wah>
 
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In ya pop Partridge said:
Yeah, they were, though, weren’t they, mate.
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Judge for yourself, Partridge

Blue and White said:
brings into question what was said here earlier in the season.

Is there corruption in football?

Did someone pay for that amount of luck throughout a tournament?
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BajanSpur said:
Funny you should mention this.,

In todays game, Robben played as if he'd been paid IMO. During the penalty kick, he might as well had told the keeper what bit of the goal line to go for. It all looked a bit suspicious to me :police:. A very large brown envelope will be passing hands somewhere :bandit:, I suspect.
And his shambolic acting after the game deserved a medel :emoticon-0106-cryin. It was a sight to see. He could probably get a part on one of Andrew Lloyd webber's shows :emoticon-0116-evilg... with a bit more training.
I guess, it's quite difficult to act sad for the fans when one is also trying to decide what colour Farrari to take out the showroom Monday morning forthcoming. He deserves the medal for the after game acting alone.

Gomez is another one., he must be on 'whatshisnames' payroll aswell. I mean, why else would he take all those extra touches, right in front goal, when all he had to do was boot the ball in the bloody net.

Its all a bit sad really, especially for us the fans,. We've had to endure the sight of Manchester City buying the Premiership., now this !.
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Also they are on their own board ya melt, so who were they trying to WUM? Themselves?! <laugh>
 
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What a bell end <doh>

C.Kane said:
Over the past 5 years, the following have been established as (quote Rafa Benitez) "facts" (end quote):

1) 2015: There is corruption in football, all the way to the very top.
2) 2017: There are narratives at play in football, and officials are both aware of and sometimes actively contributing to them (Mark "look at me everybody" Clattenburg).
3) 2018: The standard of officiating has sunk so pitifully low that there was an overwhelming groundswell of support for the introduction of technology, otherwise known as VAR.

Taken on their own, the above 3 facts are relatively innocuous. You need a combination of the three to create an orchestrated effort almost impossible to trace and even more impossible to derail.

As I said in a post earlier this season: am I certain that there is bias in favour of certain teams? No. Would I be surprised to wake up tomorrow to headlines of 'FA Scandal!" plastered all over the back pages? Equally, no.

What worries me more than any of the above is a closer look at the money-driven links connecting multiple elements of the footballing world which don't necessarily make corruption inevitable but do make it far, far easier to direct and incentivise. In the early days of the TV mega-money era, we sat back and watched as one of the biggest providers of football coverage and news - Sky Sports - launched a gambling wing - Sky Bet - and then slowly as the years ticked by, interlinked the two. So much so that we are now at a ridiculous stage where you can open their website and one tab is reporting x looks likely to move to y, while the other tab is offering bets on x moving to y with odds clearly fixed according to the coverage offered in tab 1. Seems innocent enough but personally I have always found it disturbing to the point of being unethical. In securities fraud terms, it strikes me as a Pump & Dump scheme.

But lately even more disturbing developments have occurred - again, without a peep from Joe Public. I'm sure many of us enjoyed the excellent Amazon Prime coverage over Boxing Day. But isn't it a bit unsettling that the same company have started making documentaries about all and sundry? Is it really all that far fetched to envision a subtle yet intrusive directive from the very top to ensure x,y & z happen in a group of games in order to make 'great TV' from the documentary being filmed at the same time? And is it really all that far-fetched, as football becomes ever more Hollywoodised, to envision the retail giants interlinking its sports coverage department with its merchandise department? Much in the same way as Sky Sports 'uses' its own coverage to 'pump' select stories before 'dumping' the odds on its gambling clientele, could we one day see Amazon use its coverage to 'pump' a certain team's merchandise (also available on Prime, with same day delivery of course) before 'dumping' it on its retail clientele?

It may sound sinister, but there is no question that a great narrative makes great TV. Leicester winning the league, City winning the treble, Liverpool winning the league after 30 years...these are gripping stories. What Amazon are doing is taking niche TV and financing it to go mainstream, turning it into documentaries which (they hope) will compete with the best Netflix series out there. And once that goes mainstream, the capital potential in the game will increase exponentially, thereby also increasing exponentially the chance that someone, anyone at the the very top of the ivory tower will start orchestrating a linkage of the 3 ingredients above: exploiting the corrupt heart of football by driving the 'best TV' narratives and securing both via an unseen technological system answerable to no-one.

Rant over. Tin foil hat back in drawer.
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IMO, officials would be the prime target of these match fixers. The far east betting syndicates have enormous wealth and could offer a PL ref life changing sums of money to influence a key game.

Obviously, there’s no proof currently, but it would be naive to think these officials can’t be got at.
 
Bodinki said:
Apparantly the spuds have gone full on Scouse now with the conspiracy theories.
The FA is corrupt, everyone is being bribed to make sure Liverpool win the league etc etc
Its all a big cover up yadda yadda
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Oh so youve visited recently then? <laugh>
 
So apparently its not just Chelsea's 2012 CL win that was won through bribery, but Leicester's 2016 title win and now Liverpools inevitable 2020 title as well.

All so Amazon and Sky can turn Premier League football in to the WWE.
And of course deny poor little Spurs any chance of a trophy, as the unfavoured red headed step child of the football world.

So I am guessing they also orchestrated Spurs many many semi final meltdowns over the last decade, plus made the entire Spurs XI lose their **** at Stamford Bridge and throw away a 2-0 lead to cost them the title in 2016, AND somehow grease enough palms to make Spurs lose to Liverpool in last years CL final.....it is all so clear now.......
We have all been duped!

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Libby said:
So it's FA Cup 3rd round this weekend, that wonderful time of year that we get to see matches on the telly that we wouldn't normally see.


Such as Liverpool v Everton.
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The only tie that looks remotely interesting is @brb ’s lot vs @Big Ern ’s. Arsenal Leeds maybe if it had been at Elland Road. Merseyside Derby **** for the neutrals.
 
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