The premier league conspiracy

After the stock market crashed in the month of Oct 08, the matches played in the premier league started to show signs of being manipulated.

I am sure that the clubs are affected by the financial crisis. One sign is that clubs have ceased to indulge in transfers and have taken prudent stances. Man Utd have announced that there will not be any transfers with a recalling of youngsters on loan. Same for Chelsea, where Roman Abramovich has been affected quite seriously by the crisis and fallen oil prices.

Clubs are known to hold huge debt with many occurrences of financial crisis of clubs such as Leeds Utd, Newcastle etc.

My observations
It can be seen that clubs have been playing a little weird. It seems that match fixing is rampant. However, not all games are fixed, not all teams collaborate. Manipulation can be one-sided.

This occurred with the recent poor performance of my team in fantasy.premierleague. It occurred after the crisis got worse. I'm not blaming the recent poor performance because of match fixing but it gave me an insight of what is going on.

I believe that match fixing is nothing new. It is just that recent games are acting more strangely.

Maybe, maybe not.