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The Pyramid — Edition 3
Edition 3 — Millwall's commercial revenue is up 36%, and it isn't the reason you'd think, plus four more from across the pyramid.
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Edition 3 · 3 August 2026
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Happy Monday.
Five stories this week — a Championship club whose gentrification story turned out to be about something else entirely, a $20bn plan to sell the World Cup that lasted four days, a League One club refusing to panic about its own unsustainable finances, a £2.9m profit that isn't really a profit at all, and Wales' only two-Michelin-star chef taking over a food hatch.
Here's this week.
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The Lead Story
Millwall's commercial revenue is up 36%. It's not the reason you'd think.
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There's a natural wine bar opposite the Wetherspoons near Surrey Quays station now. The crowd at The Den is visibly changing. It would be a tidy story to say Millwall's commercial income is rising because the area around the ground is gentrifying.
It's not. The jump lines up almost exactly with a new shirt sponsor — one that's since collapsed into administration. The area really is changing. The accounts just haven't caught up to it yet. And the harder question underneath it all: on the numbers, does Millwall actually need the new money next door, or can they keep winning without it?
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The Pyramid — Edition 3 · Also this week
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Also this week
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A £75 season ticket, a £450 chef
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Aberystwyth Town have brought in Gareth Ward — chef at Ynyshir, the only two-Michelin-star restaurant in Wales — to run matchday catering at Park Avenue. A tasting menu at Ynyshir starts from £450. A full season ticket at Aberystwyth costs £75. This isn't a commercial play at an average gate of 350 — it's a genuinely famous local business backing its local club. We'll be visiting later this season to see if it can beat Kingstonian's 9.2 on the Burger Index.
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FIFA tried to sell the World Cup. It lasted four days.
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Gianni Infantino announced a plan to spin FIFA's commercial rights into a $20bn entity and sell a stake to private equity — including a fund run by Joshua Kushner — for up to $4.2bn. By Thursday, UEFA's 55 member nations had voted to boycott FIFA competitions if it went ahead. By Friday, two of Infantino's own senior officials had broken ranks in public, and the plan was dead.
We wrote about it while it was still live, framing it against a League One club spending months agonising over whether to lift a 15% cap on a single investor's stake, just to keep growing without losing fan control. The World Cup story has since collapsed. The Wimbledon one hasn't.
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AFC Wimbledon aren't in crisis. That's the more interesting problem.
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The Dons Trust says the club's current financial structure isn't sustainable in League One. A £3.3m bond redemption falls due in spring 2027, and forecast cash flow isn't enough to cover it if bondholders want their money back.
This isn't a collapse story. It's a capital story — a fan-owned club trying to work out what kind of investment it can take without giving up the thing that makes it fan-owned in the first place.
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Peterborough posted a £2.9m profit. Take out player sales and it's a £2.3m loss.
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The headline number looks healthy. The filed accounts tell a different story: £6.5m of the year's result came from selling players, not from running a football club. It's basically the League One business model, in miniature, with the numbers laid bare.
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The Pyramid — Edition 3 — Burger Index #3
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🍔 Burger Index #3
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Carshalton Athletic
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A factory patty, £5.00, 7.6/10 — “had worse at the football.” But the real story here is the accounts.
Carshalton are a Step 3 club under no legal obligation to publish a proper profit and loss account. They filed a clean, readable one anyway: net assets more than doubled in two years, a genuine profit, long-term debt down by nearly two-thirds. No owner writing a cheque. Just a small club being run properly.
Kingstonian's 9.2, recorded at landlord club Ashford Town's ground, still leads.
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That's this week's stories. Reply if you've got a club whose numbers don't add up, or a burger worth investigating.
Arthur Lewis
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