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Pyramid Schemes by Fred Atkins

Pyramid Schemes by Fred Atkins

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Non-league football is a multi-million pound industry that exists in a permanent state of chaos. Its clubs have been owned by Hollywood superstars like Ry*n Re****ds, footballing galacticos like David Beckham and business tycoons like Dale Vince, but it’s still run like a whelk stall.

The pyramid system gives thousands of clubs a chance of reaching the top, but it comes at a price: in nearly 50 years since it was formed, for every club that’s reached the promised land of the Football League another has gone bust trying.
Fred Atkins, co-writer of the film "Gate Money," was there as a six-year-old fan when the Alliance Premier League was born in 1979 and watched it evolve into a business watched by nearly two million people a year.
Pyramid Schemes is the story of a football revolution that took place years before Sky claimed to have reinvented the game and of the barely believable triumphs, scandals and fiascos that happened during nearly half a century of insanity.

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