Read some of Hough's stuff and that of the Centre for Corruption (David-Barrett and Barrington), as I have a professional interest in it.Times Radio interviewed a Politics Professor from Sussex University who used to work for the Centre for the Study of Corruption (Dan Hough) this morning about the APT case. It was utterly bizarre. He clearly has knowlege of football finance and just used the opportunity to unfairly lambast Manchester City. There were too many factual errors to list here. But to give you some context he failed to even mention what today's PL vote is actually about, namely that three independent Judges have ruled that the PL's updated financial rules are unlawful and unfair. Of course the Times made no attempt at any balance in their story. It is virtually impossible to trust anything reported in the UK media these days.
The issue I have with the Centre is that whilst they have a good and clear methodology (as good as you are going to get in the context of corruption) it still relies on the knowledge and understanding of what is in many cases a very nuanced and partisan sphere. No matter how smart you are if your knowledge of the City case comes from bluemoon your views will be very different from if its from the sadcafe or Rawk, irrespective of how good your methodology is.
In short he probably believes the British press.
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