Premier League Football Is Fixed

We trade on our own analyses and we mimic the corruption in the marketplace...
... that is the corruption that Sportradar, Federbet, Early Warning, Interpol, Europol and the FA's Sports Betting Integrity Unit (sic) somehow fail to spot.

Since Howard Webb took over from the sacked Keren Barratt as sole individual to appoint Premier League pgMOB referees to matches, there have been 37 games in the league.
We have traded on 18.
We have won all 18 trades.
Do the stats.
Football is Fixed.

The matches are listed below - FIX indicates that trade was based on betting patterns ie insider money in the markets prior to kick off.

MAN CITY v West Brom WON FIX
Newcastle v ARSENAL WON FIX
SOUTHAMPTON v Burnley WON FIX
TOTTENHAM v Leicester WON
WEST HAM v Sunderland WON FIX
Liverpool v MAN UTD WON FIX
Queens Park Rangers v EVERTON WON FIX
ARSENAL v Liverpool WON FIX
LEICESTER CITY v West Ham WON FIX
MAN UTD v Aston Villa WON FIX
CHELSEA v Stoke WON on CHELSEA on Fixed Odds and on Asian Handicaps on Stoke FIX
Aston Villa v QPR WON FIX
Burnley v ARSENAL WON but closed out at half time FIX
Queens Park Rangers v CHELSEA WON FIX
MAN UTD v Man City WON FIX
LIVERPOOL v Newcastle WON FIX
EVERTON v Burnley WON FIX
MAN CITY v West Ham WON FIX

In these matches, 5 penalties and 5 sendings off have been in favour of the trades/fixes and only Jordan Henderson's late penalty (when Liverpool were 0-3 down at the Emirates) against.

We traded 6 of these events at Betfair and 12 at our Australian brokers.
We will provide evidence of trades to any allegedly regulatory body.

This systemic abuse, quite frankly, is disgraceful.

Day Two Of The English Matchfixing Scandal Court Case

The most interesting aspect to us of the opening day of the trial of Delroy Facey and Moses Swaibu is that, although this alleged corruption is on lower league matches, the structure is in many ways identical to matchfixing in the Premier League.

The only difference is one of scale - the rewards are markedly higher when a five billion pound global betting market is fixed.

Another feature of note is that mechanisms described in court are the mechanisms that we have been banging on about since 2006.
In 2006, some thought us conspiracy theorists...
... now some see us as prescient.
We are neither.
We are just very good data analysts!

Until BBC Radio 4 Six O'Clock News reported the courtcase last evening, the only newspaper covering the case was the Birmingham Mail.
Now most legitimate media are reporting it.
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Updates from Day Two by Matt Lloyd of the Birmingham Mail:

Facey and Swaibu deny an identical charge dating from November 2013 that they conspired to bribe lower league players to throw matches, get booked, give away penalties or score own goals.
Mr Mather will continue his opening of the case throughout the day.
He begins going back to a schedule of contact between those involved in the alleged fixing ring.
He refers to a WhatsApp phone text conversation between Facey and someone called Marv on September 15 2013.
The pair talked about players in Australia involved on alleged match fixing being arrested.
Mr Mather says: "This shows Mr Facey was well aware what match fixing is, well aware match fixing is unlawful and well aware people who committed match fixing are in a degree of trouble."

After the conversation with Marv, there was a nine-minute call between Facey and Ganeshan.
Mr Mather says there might be a suggestion Facey was trying to con the match-fixers himself by taking their cash and not fixing matches, but putting out players who were not footballers.
Mr Mather says that's not what Facey did though.
He said; "The evidence will show what he does is approach footballers and ask them to throw matches.
"He talks to individual players and tried to corrupt them to lose games."
There are messages where Facey says he has a conference team who will "do a game," and that he has six of the players on board.
Mr Mather says: "What does that mean? 'To do a game'?
"The prosecution say it can only mean one thing, rigging a game."

Facey and Ganeshan also discussed a group of players being arrested in Australia over match-fixing allegations.
The pair also discussed money they could make from bets on conference matches Mr Mather says were subject to rigging.
Mr Mather says conversations involving Michael Boateng, also jailed last year for conspiracy to commit bribery, involved discussions about penalties and red cards.
It was suggest a player could make £4,000 for just two hours' work.
Mr Mather says: "Normal people take much longer to make that sort of money.
"It is obvious, the prosecution say, they are talking about the timing of events in matches that are rigged.
"If you know what players are going to do in advance you can make a killing on the betting markets."

Mr Mather says while this conversation didn't involve Swaibu or Facey, it is similar to conversations the pair had elsewhere and shows they took place in the context of match fixing.

The jury are back and Mr Mather continues, still looking at various text conversations that took place within the match-fixing ring over Skype, WhatsApp and via text message.
In one conversation, Joe McArthur, a made-up name used by an investigator, asked Sankaran what conference teams he 'owned' and which matches he could fix towards the end of November 2013.
After that Krishnan Ganeshan contacted Facey telling him to have his boys ready and that if they did what was asked the pair would have big business in the future.
Mr Mather says this is evidence Facey was involved with Sankeran and Ganeshan and planned to be involved in the long-term.
Joe McArthur said to Sankaran that his investor, Eddie, an undercover officer with the National Crime Agency, wanted to meet the players who were due to throw the match.

In a Skype conversation between Facey and somebody called W Raj W, the pair discussed sending players to Finland because there were more betting opportunities there than in the English Conference leagues.
By October 2013, Mr Mather says Facey and Ganeshan were planning to fix a match as a trial with small bets, then when investors saw they could make money, larger sums would be bet on another match.
This, Mr Mather says, is evidence Facey was not involved in a one-off scam against the betting syndicate, but was involved for the long term in match fixing.

When W Raj W said he was broke but had investors to bet on matches, Facey asked him: "Will they do the Welsh League?"
Mr Mather says: "This was not Delroy Facey being led on, this is Facey offering up a league they can do.
"Facey is offering to fix matches in the Welsh league, offering up Port Talbot."
W Raj W, who is not in the dock in this trial, said to Facey that he thought either Bromley FC or Chesterfield had been "on the take" the previous season and that a match might have been rigged, but he didn't think it had.
He asked Facey to check out the team (it's unclear which particular team he was referring to) to see if Facey knew any of the players.

By November 14, 2011, a meeting had been set up between supposed investors and players involved in the alleged match-fixing.
Facey and Ganeshan were talking about the meeting and how the investor was nervous and didn't want to bet money on the first match.
Ganeshan said his man Chann was travelling to the UK and he had an investor - undercover investigator Eddie - in his pocket.
There was talk about "Facey's boys not messing up" otherwise it would ruin their future business.
Facey asked Ganeshan: "After the game I'll get £20,000 for my players?"
Ganeshan explained when he would transfer sums of money later that week.
Contact was then made between Chann Sankaran and Delroy Facey.
In an iMessage, Sankaran says: "Hi, King asked you to contact him urgently on Skype."
Mr Mather says at the same time Facey had a message from W Raj W telling Facey to get in touch.

After a call between Facey and Sankaran, Sankaran immediately contacted Terry Steins, the investigator posing as an investor.
Steins was demanding to see the players involved with the match fixing in order to build trust, says Mr Mather.
That meeting didn't go ahead as players never showed.
Another meeting was set up on November 16.

Ganeshan sent a message to Facey asking what he was doing and saying that things were very bad.
Terry Steins tells Sankaran he has checked the Halifax Town website for the players he's been told are involved in the match fixing, but can't find them.
Sankaran tells him the players are new to the team so don't appear on the website.
Mr Mather says there was a breakdown in trust between Steins and Sankaran because players were never produced.
W Raj W then tells Facey to try and get Hyde FC on board.
Facey says he can get players from Lincoln or Hyde to turn up to a meeting with Sankaran and Steins.
Facey said in a message to W Raj R: "I'll get the boys and your guy sorts me straight away."
Then, in messages between Facey and Sankaran, Facey says he has five players: defenders, midfielders and a striker.
The pair went back and forth about how much the players will cost.
When Sankaran asks if Facey played for Bolton Wanderers, Facey doesn't respond.

On November 20 there were more messages between Facey and Chann Sankaran.
A further meeting was set up for undercover investigator Terry Steins to meet players at the Marriott Victoria & Albert Hotel in Manchester.
Mr Mather now refers to a WhatsApp phone exchange between Facey and Hyde player Scott Spencer.
They talk about Hyde's problems and the fact players are paid different amounts.
Mr Mather says at first the conversation is normal between two footballers.
But after Spencer says they are losing week in, week out, Facey says: "You lot should make some money out of this lad, easy money."
When Spencer asks how, Facey says he has friends who bet on matches and in a game with four goals, two in each half, players could make £4,000.
Facey goes on: "Have a word with some of the lads you trust. If you can get four or five we can do Saturday's game."
Spencer replied: "Sweet."
Mr Mather says the only interpretation of this exchange is that Facey was trying to bribe Spencer to fix a match involving Hyde.

After speaking to Moses Swaibu on the phone, Facey receives a message from Swaibu with the names of the teams Whitehawk, Bromley and Staines.
Facey sends those to Sankaran and asks of those teams are okay.
When he is told they are okay, Facey sent a WhatsApp message to Swaibu saying: "They are in, bro, for Sat's game."
Mr Mather says Scott Spencer is aware of what Facey is asking him to do and gets out of it.
He messages Facey to say Hyde have got a psychologist in and the team are going for the win.
Mr Mather says: "The prosecution do not suggest Scott Spencer has ever been involved in match fixing."

Facey then messages Swaibu to say needs five players and the money is there waiting for them.
By November 22, the National Crime Agency had taken over the investigation and placed bugs in a Manchester hotel room.
Mr Mather says a conversation was recorded but only one side of it.
It was a conversation with someone called Delroy.
"There is only one Delroy," Mr Mather tells the court. "Delroy Facey."
In that conversation Ganeshan is heard telling Delroy that he needs Bromley to lose 3-0, no more and no less.

We will provide collated updates on this trial from time to time...
 

Proceedings Of The Facey/Swaibu Matchfixing Trial

Former West Bromwich Albion player and football agent Delroy Facey is on trial with fellow footballer Moses Swaibu over an alleged matchfixing conspiracy.
Facey, 34, of Woodhouse Hill, Huddersfield, and former Conference South player Swaibu, 25, of Tooley Street, London, deny the allegations dating from November 2013.
Their trial at Birmingham Crown Court is expected to last two weeks.

At the time of their arrest, Sir Bob Russell MP stated: "English football is rotten to the core."
And so it is.

After first day of trial, not one mainstream media newspaper is yet covering the affair.
Omertà is a conspiracy of silence.

We will provide updates from Matt Lloyd of the Birmingham Mail throughout the case:-

Day One

It is alleged they conspired to bribe other players to perform improperly.
The jury were selected a few minutes ago and will now begin to hear what the case is about from prosecutor Nick Mather.
He begins by telling the jury the case is about football but says they don't need to know anything about the game.
He says: "Football in this case is nothing more than a means to an end to make money."
He says the national sport is obsessed about and talked about constantly.
But he says while it is called the beautiful game it also has an ugly side, and that's the side this case will focus on.

Mr Mather says: "This case is about players being involved in an agreement where they were planning to lose football matches.
"Football is big business in this country, millions of millions of pounds change places."
Why would people fix matches? He asks.
"The simple answer is money.
"It's all about the money."
He says betting on British football is big business, particularly across Asian market.
He tells the jury two men have already been convicted of being the ringleaders in a match fixing trial.

Facey and Swaibu, he says, were used to find players who would be willing to fix matches for cash.
Bets, Mr Mather says, would be placed on results, goals, own goals, red and yellow cards at particular times.
It was Facey and Swaibu's job to find players to take cash to fix such bets.
Of Facey, Mr Mather says: "He was a middle man, a fixer, somebody who identified, cast his net to find players who might be willing to take part in match fixing."
He says in 2010-2011 when he played for Lincoln City Facey was earning £65,000 a year.
But by the time of the match fixing allegations, between November 1 and 27 2013, his income had fallen, and that could be his motive for getting involved with the match fixing ring.

Mr Mather now guiding the jury through what is bribery and conspiracy.
He says a player who takes cash to fix a match, get booked or score an own goal would be guilty of bribery.
Likewise the person who pays them is guilty of bribery.
For a conspiracy he says it is necessary for a plan to be made between two or more people to so something unlawful and intending to do it. He says they don't actually have to go through with the act.
He says: "Things sometimes get in the way of people's best laid plans.
"The referee might be blind, some apparently are, they might not give a yellow card for that tackle."

He says it would be impossible to guarantee results unless every player and the referee on both teams had been paid off.
"All you can do is improve the chances, pay some players not to play very well, and that's what the prosecution says happened in this case."
The nature of the offence is that it would be secret, he says. That those running the betting syndicate would be careful who they approached and would not write things down.
"Common sense says if you're committing a crime you don't go around telling people you are doing it."

He says betting on matches is not confined to the Premier league.
"It doesn't just happen at the top, I should probably put Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion at the top.
"It happens lower down the league."
He says this is because bigger matches are scrutinised more, the Sky Sports effect, where every angle is monitored by cameras.
Lower leagues have fewer spectators and fewer cameras.

He says money is another reason; top players earn too much to be corrupted with less than millions of pounds.
Mr Mather says most players in the lower leagues would tell fixers to get lost.
But he says where pay is a few hundred pounds a week and small bonuses, a few thousand pounds might be enough to convince them to fix a match.
In this case he says the teams and players were all from the lower leagues.
Mr Mathers says it doesn't matter if the jury have never heard of the leagues or teams involved. He says he players in those leagues earn a fraction of the top players, and that is the key point.

Mr Mather says this case began with a private investigator called Terry Steins, a former RAF police officer.
With an interest in match fixing he began investigating and set up a Facebook page to try and root out fixers.
This eventually led to the ringleaders in this case.
One of those was Chann Sankaran.
With support from a film maker and The Daily Telegraph - who stumped up cash asked for by Sankeran.
Sankeran eventually mention an agent and former Bolton player called Delroy who could find players who were "up for a bit of match fixing."

It was at this point on November 16 2011 the National Crime Agency became involved, took over the investigation and sent in an undercover officer called Eddy.
Mr Mather says Sankeran and co-ringleader Krishna Ganeshan had no idea they were talking to people who were outside of their conspiracy.
Mr Mather says there is evidence of Facey approaching players from teams around the country offering them cash to throw matches.
"Why would he bribe them if he wasn't part of this?" Says Mr Mather.
Evidence obtained by the undercover officer is "incontrovertible" that Facey and Swaibu were "well at it."
That evidence includes phone calls and Skype conversations of them offering bribes and talking about fixing matches.
There is deemed a good place to take a break. The jury are given a short break, updates will continue when they return.

The jury are back and prosecutor Nick Mather will continue his opening speech.
The jury are handed a large document which outlines the schedule of telephone evidence in this case.
Mr Mather says he will go through some of it with them but not every line.
He says the schedule is detailed and examines line by line how the defendants were operating but says it is only a snap shot.
Using the schedule, Mr Mather begins looking at meetings which were set up between Joe McArthur - a made up name used by investigator Terry Steins - and match fixing ringleader Chann Sankaran.

Using WhatsApp, Joe set up a meeting at a hotel with Sankaran.
In one message Sankaran said: "Saturday I got game."
Mr Mather says messages like this are important in the context of the case.
He says Sankaran is talking about a rigged football match.
Mr Steins, as Joe, was posing as someone who had an investor lined up to pay cash to bribe players.

Mr Mather says these messages show the context in which Sankaran was operating - betting and fixing matches.
Also he says these conversations between Joe and Sankaran match the style of talk used by Facey and Swaibu.
During the early exchanges included discussions of fixing an England Under 21s World Cup match.
An Australia match was also mentioned - Mr Mather says Sankaran fixed matches in Australia where several players have been arrested on match fixing charges.

Because Joe and Sankaran both knew they were talking about match fixing, they didn't have to mention it explicitly in text messages.
However in one Joe asks: "How much does the boss have to lay to have this match fixed bro?"
Sankaran said it would cost 100,000 Euros to bribe a player and then a £300,000 bet.
The profit on the bet, Sankaran says, would be £420,000.
On June 7 2013 Joe exchanged messages with Sankaran about betting on a match in Australia.
Joe said his businessman investor might stump up money but asked if it was a big game?
Sankaran said bets of £500,000 could be placed.
Sankaran said the bet could be made in Singapore or Indonesia.

Sankaran told Joe he had players going to him offering to fix matches.
Sankaran said in a message; "if you do good business with them they'll do business with us.
"The players buy houses."
He said players were paid up to four months worth of their salary.
Sankaran said of players didn't do as they were asked they wouldn't get paid.

The two talked about international friendly matches and planned after that to bet on a conference match.
Krishna Ganeshan, another of the fixing ringleaders, had text conversations with Delroy Facey on Skype.
Ganeshan was in Australia. He asked if Facey has spoken to The King.
Facey said; "I'm waiting for The King to give me a project to execute."
Ganeshan said they, the fixing syndicate, were ready to 'buy' two clubs in the UK.
However Ganeshan says one coach was a pain to work with because he wanted to win.
The pair discussed Facey being sent to Finland by The King because he wanted him to do a deal over there.
Ganeshan said he was thinking of moving to Malaysia.

Other Skype evidence is a conversation between Michael Boateng (already convicted of bribery for match fixing) and unknown others in which case a discussion is had a it giving away a penalty early.
Someone in the conversation says it will be easier to do of Moses Swaibu is also playing.
It is there Mr Mather halts for the day.

More tomorrow...
 

11 Suspect Matches In One Weekend

The following matches from the weekend April 10th-12th 2015 were reported as having very suspicious betting patterns and/or were matchfixing events by our associate broker in Asia:

EPL 

West Bromwich Albion v Leicester City
Burnley v Arsenal
QPR v Chelsea
Manchester United v Manchester City

Serie A 

Atalanta v Sassuolo (we warned readers about this game pre-match on our Twitter feed)
Parma v Juventus
Hellas Verona v Inter Milan
Udinese v Palermo

La Liga 

Real Sociedad v Deportivo La Coruna


Bundesliga 

FC Koln v Hoffenheim
Stuttgart v Werder Bremen

11 matches out of 37 in the four territories were suspect.
4 matches (11%) were definite matchfixing events...
... we traded and won on these four events.

As We Are Dealing With Omertà - A Conspiracy Of Silence - A Whistleblowing Body Would Be Useful! 

Football is Fixed!!