Don’t normally do stories about football corruption here on Sick Chirpse as most readers would rather see a picture of Beyonce’s butt or something, but this one is pretty crazy and I can’t really believe that it’s actually happening and isn’t the plot of a dumb TV show like ‘Dream Team’ or something.
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Those of you that follow championship football might have seen that Wigan were recently placed in administration and deducted 12 points, which if applied this season will push them into the relegation zone. Initially it’s easy to pass this off as mismanagement of a football club – all too common these days – but this thread from a Wigan fan implies that something far more sinister is going on:
In 2018 Dave Whelan sold Wigan Athletic to Hong Kong based International Entertainment Corporation (IEC) who specialise in gambling. Owned by professional poker player Stanley Choi of Hong Kong.
— mark 🇸🇱 (@marksparko) July 3, 2020
IEC loaned NLF £28million with an interest rate of 8% rising to 20% if not paid back in 12 months. That’s £100,000 a week in payments which Wigan would not be able to afford. Sounds dodgy as hell right? Well the EFL didn’t seem to think swiftly approving the terms of sale. pic.twitter.com/bsgJ2QHU04
— mark 🇸🇱 (@marksparko) July 3, 2020
Has Au Yeung Wai Kay always dreamed of owning a football club in Lancashire? Doubt it. He paid £17million for the club + £28million in loan repayments. That’s £45million pounds to own a club for 7 days and then place it into admin. Why would anybody do that?
— mark 🇸🇱 (@marksparko) July 3, 2020
This video has since been confirmed as Rick Parry by the EFL. pic.twitter.com/ID43NgCrRP
— mark 🇸🇱 (@marksparko) July 3, 2020
KB88 brought into the club by the past owner and Darren Royle (Current Wigan Chairman). Royle used to work for KB88 Bet. He was also responsible for recommending IEC to Wigan Athletic when Whelan was looking to sell.
— mark 🇸🇱 (@marksparko) July 3, 2020
So why would somebody place a club into admin 7 days after owning them and only 6 games before the end of the season? -12 points is the sanction from the EFL, dragging Wigan back into the relegation places. Nobody would want that surely?
— mark 🇸🇱 (@marksparko) July 3, 2020
Let me now take you back to August 2019, witnesses in the stand saw somebody get thrown out of the stadium for being wired up and illegally betting. Where in the world was he wired up to? Hong Kong. There’s a history of betting scams. pic.twitter.com/SB4Q96EKL0
— mark 🇸🇱 (@marksparko) July 3, 2020
This money was quickly pulled from under the club’s feet by a transaction that was sanctioned by the EFL only weeks prior. The same EFL that then issued a -12 point penalty, punishing the club but potentially rewarding the owners and their carefully constructed plan.
— mark 🇸🇱 (@marksparko) July 3, 2020
How can you help? Anything you buy from the club shop goes directly to the club which will help with ongoing costs. Or, you can purchase a cardboard cut out for our remaining home games which proceeds will go to the club, let’s fill it with shirts from all clubs far and wide!!
— mark 🇸🇱 (@marksparko) July 3, 2020
I must state, there’s no actual evidence for a bet placed with KB88. Not yet anyway.
— mark 🇸🇱 (@marksparko) July 3, 2020
I mean I guess this guy is saying that all this is a theory, but when you’re a fan of a football team like this then you’re gonna look into it from every possible angle and that seems like what he’s done and something just doesn’t add up how it’s been presented to the public and his theory certainly makes a lot of sense doesn’t it? It’s kind of a common knowledge that foreign owners use football clubs to launder money and so it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that one of them would pull something like this to make a shit load of money out of a team’s relegation out of nowhere.
Just kinda crazy that someone actually had the balls to go through with it and didn’t think anyone would find out, considering how obvious it seems connecting the dots here. Of course, this guy could be completely wrong, but there’s normally no smoke without fire, you know?
Hopefully Wigan get out of it somehow, but either way it seems like we’ll be hearing a lot about this in the coming months. Probably in a Netflix or Prime documentary.
For more of the same, check out this train from Wigan to North Korea. Does that have anything to do with this conspiracy theory?
