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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Mesut Ozil’s mugger speaks out
Plus: The Pogba witch trials begin and the teetotal snooker star KO’d by a pre-match spliff Join Zach and Jack for another edition of Extra Shot, our weekly pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. -
Hulk Hogan: sex, lies and videotape
Laaaaadiiiiiies and gentleman, From Tampa, Florida. Weighing in 302lb. The fiiiiiiive time WWF champion. Serial adulterer, steroid addict and sex tape star. Hulk. Hoooooogaaaaaan. -
Mauro Icardi bonking his barrister
Join Zach and Jack for another edition of Extra Shot, our weekly pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. -
Jack Grealish: the best thing since sliced veg
From Vegas benders to Man City sex parties, this is the story of the nation’s rowdy younger brother… -
Conor McGregor tracks down his teenage tormentors
Plus: Mo Farah hunting muggers, yet another BBC dirty dog, and the gory details of Eddie Jones’ reign of terror. Join Zach and Jack for another edition of Extra Shot, our weekly pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. -
Mike Tyson: I’ll eat your children (part 3)
From threatening to devour Lennox Lewis’ children to coked-up Hollywood cameos, join us for the third and final part of the Mike Tyson story. -
Mike Tyson: end of an eara (part two)
1991. After a shock defeat to Buster Douglas, Mike Tyson goes off the rails. And things are about to get much darker… -
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.
