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"The total global betting market on the Brazil/England friendly last month was in the region of £250 million.

"Stellar football agents represented the England goalkeeper, Joe Hart, and all five defenders who played in Brazil - Ashley Cole, Leighton Baines, Phil Jagielka, Gary Cahill and Glen Johnson.

"Stellar is co-owned by gambling horserace owner David Manasseh who was warned about his future conduct over the Luton Town bungs affair, and Jonathan Barnett who was found guilty of two misconduct charges over the transfer of Ashley Cole from Arsenal to Chelsea.

"They even attend the same synagogue together!"

Stellar Returns



"When games are rigged, infiltrators are to blame: Asian criminal gangs and Balkan gangsters are the usual suspects.

"But the surest fixes are inside jobs. 

"After all, you pay the players’ salaries, so you are in the best position to suborn them.

"You can decide who is picked or dropped, or who goes on the transfer list (or doesn’t)...

A villain's guide to football Welcome to the beautiful game -The Economist



"Be inspired by Arkan, the deceased Serbian paramilitary who is said to have used his football club to traffic arms and drugs...

"In Bulgaria: 15 football club bosses have been murdered in the top football league just over a decade...



"Set up a holding company (or a nest of them) in a discreet jurisdiction, as many owners do, and you have a money-laundering and embezzlement machine at your disposal..."

 Continued here: A villain's guide to football Welcome to the beautiful game -The Economist



European football: murders and bribes

GAY SOCCER - JUSTIN FASHANU - CABINET MINISTERS

Soccer is a very gay sport.

Soccer star Justin Fashanu once said that "British soccer is packed with gays from dressing room to boardroom."

(Justin Fashanu, dribbling round ...)

There are some homophobic fans.

Their homophobia is usually a cover for their own gayness.

Justin Fashanu

Justin Fashanu was a top soccer player who came out as gay.

Justin was the son of a Nigerian barrister living in England.

When his parents split up Justin was sent to a Barnardo's children's home.

When Justin was five, he and his brother were fostered by Alf and Betty Jackson and were brought up in Norfolk.

Justin became the first black footballer to command a £1m transfer fee. (Justin Fashanu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

In 1990, after his career had gone downhill, due to an injury, Justin claimed to have had an affair with a married Conservative MP.

After moving to the United States, Justin, in 1998, was reportedly involved with a seventeen-year-old boy who reportedly accused him of sexual assault.

Reportedly, Justin, in a suicide note, stated that the sex was consensual.

On the morning of 3 May 1998, Justin was found hanged in a deserted lock-up garage, in Shoreditch, London, after reportedly visiting Chariots Roman Spa, a local gay sauna.

"'He gave us the names of two cabinet ministers he claimed he had sex with,' says Phil Taylor, the People's reporter who negotiated with Fashanu. 'If the story could have been proved, it is just possible we might have coughed up pounds 300,000. But we discovered he had absolutely no evidence. We never knew what is the truth and what is not the truth. You have to be very, very careful when dealing with Mr Fashanu.'" (Justin Fashanu, dribbling round ...)

Justin's niece talks about Britain's Gay Footballers

Worth watching: BBC iPlayer - Britain's Gay Footballers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01bncfg/

BBC's gay footballers documentary scores high in ratings Gay Star ...

"John and Justin were born and raised in the UK, living with foster parents for a significant period of their youth. John grew up with a speech problem and to him Justin wasn't just an older brother. He was also his confidante, best friend and role model.

"Sadly, as their lives developed and they both became professional footballers, their relationship became strained. Most significantly in 1990, when Justin took the radical, but very courageous decision to "come out" openly in the press with his homosexuality."

BBC - BBC Three - Blog: Britain's Gay Footballers


The following is from a forum discussing the "Stephen Milligan MP & Justin Fashanu Murders".

"It was alleged at the time by Scallywag magazine that Stephen Milligan was originally approached by the security services to attempt to dissuade a well-known footballer coming towards the end of his career from continuing to hawk his story of gay sex sessions with two then serving cabinet ministers around Fleet Street.

"Milligan was a well respected MP and part time journalist. Milligan allegedly approached the footballer who was not prepared to drop his attempts to sell the story.

"Milligan allegedly reported back to the security services who informed Milligan that unless the footballer did keep matters quiet he would be eliminated.

"Apparently there was more to the story than simply the gay sex aspect, the introduction of the footballer to the cabinet ministers was allegedly arranged by a third party who had very close links with an extremely powerful paedophile ring.

"The implication was that the cabinet ministers may also have been involved with the paedophile ring although this was not confirmed in the Scallywag report, however it was very clearly hinted at...

"The cabinet ministers involved were very high profile indeed and the alleged paedophile link, if revealed, would have had a catastrophic effect on not only public confidence in domestic government but would have had repercussions on the image of Britain right around the world...

"Milligan was allegedly informed by the security services that, his efforts at dissuasion having failed, the footballer would be killed with his death being made to look like an accident. Milligan then allegedly threatened the security services that, if anything happened, he would tell the whole story to The Sunday Times.

"Shortly afterwards Stephen Milligan died, having apparently hanged himself..."

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UNHAPPY SOCCER PLAYERS

UK soccer player Duncan Ferguson introduces himself to Steffen Freund - Coming out of the Closet with Fuse: Meet Big Dunc e

Duncan Ferguson, former team mate of UK footballer Gary Speed, was jailed in 1994 for assaulting a rival player on the pitch.

Gary Speed was 'found hanged after a row'

More than 122 footballers are in jail, a charity has revealed s

More than 120 former UK football stars are behind bars for:

1. drug dealing

2. assault

3. car theft

4. shoplifting

In December 2011, former Manchester United player Ronnie Wallwork was jailed for 15 months for selling stolen car parts.

In November 2011, former Leyton Orient player Elliot Omozusi, 22, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years for witness intimidation.

In August 2011, former Southend player Tesfaye Bramble, brother of Sunderland player Titus, was jailed for four-and-a-half years for raping a teenage girl.

In 2008, Joey Barton of football team QPR was jailed for assault.

In 2008, former Plymouth goalkeeper Luke McCormick caused the deaths of Aaron Peak, 10, and brother Ben, 8, in an alcohol-fuelled road smash and was sentenced to seven years in jail.

In 1990, Tony Adams was jailed for drink-driving while he was captain of Arsenal.

GARY SPEED - MYSTERIOUS DEATH

SPORT GETS FIXED

The Football Academy of Saligao, India

The only real sport is the non-professional sport.

The football World Cup is a joke and should not be taken seriously.

In 1915, a soccer match between Liverpool and Manchester United was fixed. (Match Fixing in Football)

Liverpool accepted money to lose the match and they bet on themselves to lose.

They lost 2-0.

Spanish team

In 1965, Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne, all of Sheffield Wednesday and England, were jailed for accepting bribes. (Football stars charged with taking bribes - News - The Independent)

In the 1970s, in Germany, the manipulation of games was revealed when the president of Kickers Offenbach, Horst-Gregorio Canellas, presented an audio-tape to DFB officials and a few journalists.

In that tape several players offered to let themselves be bribed (including German internationals Bernd Patzke and Manfred Manglitz) to help Offenbach avoid relegation. (Bundesliga scandal)

"Liverpool keeper Bruce Grobbelaar was caught on videotape discussing match-fixing with members of a known gambling syndicate.

"Specifically, he was accused of taking £40,000 to ensure that Liverpool lost to Newcastle." (Match Fixing in Football)

In 1995, three top UK soccer players were charged with taking bribes to rig results between 1991 and 1995.

Bruce Grobbelaar, the Southampton and Zimbabwe goalkeeper, John Fashanu, the Aston Villa striker, and Hans Segers, the Wimbledon goalkeeper, were accused of conspiring "to give and corruptly to accept gifts of money as inducements to influence the outcome of football matches".

Two alleged accomplices, a Malaysian businessman, Heng Suan Lim, and Mr Fashanu's wife, Melissa Kassamapsi, were also charged. (Football stars charged with taking bribes - News - The Independent)

Italian team

In early 2005, in Germany, a 2 million euro match-fixing scandal was discovered. Referee Robert Hoyzer confessed to fixing and betting on matches. (Bundesliga scandal)

Numerous players, coaches and officials were accused of involvement with an organised crime group in the scheme, which came on the eve of Germany playing host to the 2006 World Cup.

In 2005, in Brazil, football match-fixing was denounced by Veja magazine (Brazilian football match-fixing scandal)

In 2008, in Portugal,Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa stood trial for allegedly bribing a referee before a Portuguese Premier League match in 2004. ("Porto chief up on referee bribery charges". )

In May 2010, the head of the English Football Association, Lord Triesman resigned his post.

Triesman was of the opinion that World Cup matches were in danger of being fixed .

Picture from Indonesia by Jonathan McIntosh

Did the Russian mafia pay Bayern to throw the UEFA Cup semi-final?. (Russian Mafia 'In £32m Uefa Cup Fix' - The Daily Record)

In May 2008, in the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) Cup competition, Zenit St Petersburg beat Bayern Munich 5-1 on aggregate.

Zenit then beat Rangers in the European final.

It all looked fishy.

Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon reportedly has a taped phone conversation of suspected Russian mafia member Gennady Petrov saying that 50million of a currency, thought to be euros, was paid to Bayern.

Petrov's friend Leonid Khristoforov reportedly boasted to Petrov that he knew Zenit would win the second leg 4-0.

Indonesian team

Malcolm Glazer, who owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is Jewish.

Glazer won control of Manchester United, sparking outrage among fans.

Jewish Tribal Review has an article on Jewish influence in the sports business. (http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/sports.htm)

Some quotes:

"All the heads of the 4 major American sports professional organizations are Jewish."

"By the early 1980s Jewish individuals owned or controlled a huge number of professional baseball, basketball, football, hockey and other sports teams."

"Some of these sports moguls have questionable pasts, having been linked (though never convicted of anything) with characters in the criminal underworld."

"Eventually, Jewish gangsters like Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz, Waxey Gordon, Bugsy Siegel, Arnold Rothstein, and Lepke Buchalter helped move the criminal underworld into boxing."

"The world of sports betting and gambling has long been largely Jewish as well, influenced in many spheres by the Jewish criminal underworld..."

"Jews from around the world are buying up Great Britain's sports teams."

JTR Contributor's comment: "the wealthiest sports franschise in the world is Manchester United Football [soccer] Club."

"The billionaire Russian Jew, Roman Abramovitz, ... recently purchased for around 140 million pounds another wealthy English based football club, Chelsea...

"The ... interesting thing is, of course, the increasing number of Jewish owners or CEOs in English football....

"There is also David Levy, who is CEO at Tottemham FC, which was ranked the 16th richest football club in the world in 2001, with an annual income of around 108.5 million US.

"David Dein of Arsenal, which was ranked 10th in the world in the same year (151.9 million US).

"Then there was former Charman of Manchester City club, David Berstein, which although not in the top 20 of world football clubs, is a fairly well supporter team in England (definitely in the top 20 in terms of wealth)."

Think Team USA Got the Shaft? Try Germany

7 Great Sports Moments (That Might Have Been Fixed) Cracked.com

MANCHESTER UNITED; JEWISH OWNERS; LOANS AND FEES