Podcast: Martin Calladine on crypto scandals and corruption in football

Martin Calladine is a football business journalist whose latest book, No Questions Asked: How football joined the crypto con, is out now.

We talked about regulatory failure in the industry and government attempts to set up a functioning regulator, and what went wrong when vulnerable investors fell for club token scams.

We discussed:

  • the financialization of the game and how clubs are owned, run, and funded;
  • the regulatory failures that led to
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