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I am a better footballer
than George Best ever was, so how come they get 100K a week and I get Income Support? On receipt of my PCA rejection
in March, I sent a circular to the press, TV, FA and Prime Minister outlining all the corruption in football. I wrote
that as well as all the other corruption and fixing and foreign betting and phoney England free-kicks in the last minute,
all the money in football comes from the top teams appearing on TV, and that match officials are paid to make games exciting.
1-0 becomes 1-1 rather than 2-0 etc. Refs make Manchester United win the title because it is more lucrative for the
FA. To complete the picture now, let me add that the Premiership is rigged to squeeze out as much money and maintain
as much all round interest as possible. There is just SO MUCH money at stake that all the players are on the same
side, performing display-like show games. What about the secret John Fashanu tapes made by The News of the World?
(July 27 and Aug 3) Why haven't the police been investigating, let alone the FA? Why haven't TV news covered this
ground-breaking story? (Other sports are bent too. I remember the Nat West triangular tournament a couple
of years ago, and umpire Shepherd allowing England one no ball after another - unreachable even with the tip of the bat -
to try and prevent the visitors make winning runs in the last over; and umpires at Wimbledon always help Henman to proceed
as far as he can.) But it's football that's rotted through. Spot the Ball should
be replaced with Spot the Brown Paper Bag (using off-pitch photos).
After I sent those letters, everyone in football became very gloomy; but you shouldn't have deceived all the fans. How
could the government have allowed clubs to think of themselves as businesses? Do fans support Tesco or ICI?
Pay dearly for them to succeed? Football clubs belong to fans, and the locality. The
FA took football off terrestrial TV to line their pockets and now kids on council estates couldn't watch. Sky built
themselves on taking football off TV, and ruined football by starting wage escalation, a spiral which then forced clubs to
extort money. Let me introduce now the main principle, not just in football, by which the public are cheated.
It's a Del Boy principle that's easy to understand. Whenever vast sums change hands in business
deals, a percentage is creamed off and split both ways into back pockets, and easily covered by fake accounting. As
sums got bigger, everyone's back pocket prospered, except the poor fans'. (Small shopkeepers keep two books, the self-employed
don't declare their earnings, and when a newspaper recently handed in sixteen coats containing cash and owner's details
to London railway stations, only five were returned. Take that up a few steps, and wherever large deals take place,
the public is cheated. Add to that the fact that, as an ex-MI6 officer described, the very purpose of MI6 is to
bribe foreigners - above MI6 the secret service bribe everyone [from paying football personalities to pretend to put their
own money into a football club and to talk and write favourably about football, to paying TV executives for favourable royal
reviews and getting complete non-starters like the Queen Mother funeral off the ground by endless live broadcasting; from
paying political TV correspondents to say 'Good performance today by the government at the Hutton Enquiry', to paying for
some news story to suddenly break and take the Queen or PM off the headlines - 'Posh Kidnap Foiled' or 'Rowdy fans force plane
to land in Cardiff' etc] and since the secret service are busy bribing everyone and lining their own pockets, so that's a
green light for everyone at the top of society to grab the cash on the table in a complete free-for-all, while
the public work hard all day every day for 20 or 30K to pay for it all.)
Splitting
the railways up wasn't great. And the track was in a terrible state through 'decades of underinvestment'. Railtrack
was a solid company doing an impossible job. If Network Rail perform some track maintenance and replacement for £12M
or £15M; and Railtrack did it for 6M (of which £4M was a subsidy from government), and made a profit to shareholders of £0.5M
- that's still a good deal for rail users, however bad the service seemed. Stephen Byers used spin to highlight
the subsidy and the profit Railtrack made, and asked a judge to put it in administration - all bogus. He effectively
renationalized without paying shareholders, in broad daylight, announcing it as the Allies started bombing Afghanistan.
Experienced engineers and managers, owners of the shares, left in droves. Byers' action cost taxpayers tens
of billions. Lawyers and others made billions. The cost of running the railways hasn't increased,
but multiplied. Private money, no longer keen, is again invited to fund everything but because of the risk,
only if taxpayers guarantee greater profits and underwrite it. The subsidy which Byers used as an excuse is now peanuts
to the colossal cost/waste to the taxpayer. Everyone has creamed off hundreds of millions. And now its
possible to continue creaming money off every new bit of new expenditure because it's public funds.
And they needlessly close lines all weekend because they no longer have the know-how. Everywhere you look in society;
nothing but corruption. Why fuss about 'health tourism' when you have a worse scandal; all the needless new hospitals
everywhere? 'Pssst! Build a new hospital, accept our tender of £150M and we'll put £15M in your back pockets.'
Think of how that money could transform patient treatment and care while keeping the old and perfectly good hospital building.
A needless new Paddington hospital is going to cost a billion. The country stinks.
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