My new book – ‘No Questions Asked: How football joined the crypto con’ – is released on 22nd January 2024.
The blurb…
No Questions Asked is the fascinating, bizarre and disturbing story of what happened when English football talked itself into believing that crypto could make us all rich.
Based on the author’s agenda-setting reporting, No Questions Asked is a forensic investigation of greed, lies, negligence and fraud in the world’s most popular sporting league.
The book uncovers an extraordinary series of failures, as club after club ignored their responsibilities to their fans and signed deals with sellers of high-risk, unregulated financial products that almost universally collapsed in value, costing investors billions of pounds.
No Questions Asked is an incredible account of cryptomania – a tale of fraudsters, false identities, fan tokens, ghost ship firms, bogus investments, pyramid schemes, NFTs, gigantic losses, organised crime and the world-famous football clubs who threw their fans to the wolves.
‘Football has always had more than its fair share of scams, chancers, and con artists, but with the arrival of cryptocurrency it has gone to a new level. No Questions Asked explains how crypto and its evangelists tried to colonise football, and provides all the questions football clubs should have put to them.’
David Goldblatt, author of’ The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football’ and ‘The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football.’
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If you want a taster, you can read the first chapter for free here: https://theuglygame.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/no-questions-asked-intro-chapter-martin-calladine.pdf
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If you’re a journalist and would like to interview me about the book, you can reach me @uglygame on Twitter.
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