119: The not-so-beautiful game

<div>In the June 2022 issue of <em>The Critic</em>, <a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/june-2022/football-and-the-golden-fleece/">Nick Timothy wrote</a> that football needed to “search its conscience”, regarding the growing trend of clubs selling their own “fan tokens” — a sort of club-labelled crypto product, which can be bought and sold at prices that rise and fall according to demand.</div> <br> <div>In this podcast, <em>The Critic</em>'s literary editor, Paul Lay, talks to <em>The Critic</em>'s Sporting Life correspondent, Nick Timothy, about the wider issue of morality — and immorality — in football.</div>