The Upshot
By The Upshot
The Upshot pulls back the curtain on your favourite sports and dives into all the stuff BBC and Sky wouldn’t touch with a bargepole: drunken antics, dressing room squabbles and the simmering sexual tension of the French football team.Check out our semi-legendary newsletter that goes to 100,000+ subscribers: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=poddescriptionAnd our Twitter account, where we dig into the archives and spill classic tales from the past: http://www.twitter.com/upshottowers
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Refs on the sesh and Des Lynam’s saucy past
Join Zach and Jack for another edition of Extra Shot, our weekly pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. -
Mike Tyson: the scariest man on the planet (part one)
The year is 1977. An 11-year-old Mike Tyson is high on acid, terrorising the people of Brooklyn with a world war one bayonet. Little did they know, this wild-eyed urchin is destined to become the youngest heavyweight champion in history… -
Jar Jar Bonks: Episode III
Is Jarrell Quansah the horniest man in the Prem? An investigation. Plus: Frank Lampard is the face of crystal meth and Ruben Amorim gets his first taste of Fleet Street’s bastard journalists. -
Erik Ten Hag: the damned United
From miserable benders to stolen lunchboxes, this is the story of a doomed Dutchman… -
Vincius Junior’s sad 7am sesh
Plus: Liverpool youngster propositions pornstars, bent Ballon d’Or voters and Kobbie Mainoo’s miserable Megabus. -
Hamraoui Affair: civil war at PSG (pt.2)
It’s the true crime tale that shook French football. Two midfield rivals. A vicious twilight assault. And a bitter feud that sucked in everyone from Eric Abidal to Kylian Mbappe… -
Masked hitmen and flings with Eric Abidal: the Hamraoui Affair (pt.1)
It’s the true crime tale that shook French football. Two midfield rivals. A vicious twilight assault. And a bitter feud that sucked in everyone from Eric Abidal to Kylian Mbappe… -
Zinchenko’s kitchen nightmares
Plus: David James shatters an 11 year old’s dreams, Kevin Pietersen is barred from an exclusive golf club, and the bent ref exposed by his pet parrot. -
Wife swapping and pitchers on LSD: baseball’s seedy century
In its glorious heyday, America’s national past-time was a seedy hotbed of wife swapping, crack smoking and knife wielding drunkards. -
Thomas Tuchel moaning, groaning and barking
Plus: Fergie’s banned from the United dressing room, Man City’s biggest shaggers revealed and Kyle Walker’s naughty neighbour.
