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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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Messi fights Mexicans in Miami and Neymar ruins his daughter’s birthday

35 mins; April 17, 2024

OJ Simpson: he definitely did it

64 hours 4 mins; April 15, 2024

Loris Karius rejected from Berghain and Matt Le Tissier vs. the shapeshifting lizards

41 mins; April 10, 2024

John Daly: let’s party cocksucker

54 mins; April 09, 2024

Extra Shot: Sven’s boozy breakfast and Brooklyn Beckham sacked again

35 mins; April 03, 2024

Kidnapped teammates and McMuffin melees: a Scottish football special

55 mins; April 01, 2024

Extra Shot: wonderkids in strip clubs and Arteta’s tribute to seedy saunas

41 mins; March 28, 2024

Gary Neville: mini-retirements and mashed potato meltdowns

55 mins; March 26, 2024

Extra Shot: when Courtois shagged De Bruyne’s girlfriend and Sean Dyche’s restaurant scrap

48 mins; March 21, 2024

Brian Clough: feuds, fairytales and fookin’ cheats

60 hours 45 mins; March 19, 2024

Extra shot: Messi hungry for blood and Jesse Lingard’s awful chat up lines

41 mins; March 14, 2024

Faustino Asprilla: Colombia’s finest export

63 hours 32 mins; March 12, 2024

Extra shot: Jadon Sancho’s playstation addiction and cocaine smuggler Quincy Promes back in cuffs

47 mins; March 06, 2024

John Terry: Captain, Leader, Bellend

62 hours 33 mins; March 04, 2024

Surprise Shot: the Christian Horner WhatsApp leak

8 mins; March 01, 2024

Extra shot: Mourinho’s undercover nemesis and George Best’s Bond Girl bust-up

39 mins; February 28, 2024

F1: the stories Drive to Survive won't tell you

50 mins; February 26, 2024

Extra shot: Premier League weed farms and a Tinder date gone wrong

50 mins; February 21, 2024

Jesé Rodriguez: a wonderkid gone wild

54 mins; February 19, 2024

Extra shot: Heung-Min Son’s hotel scrap and an FA Cup love triangle

41 mins; February 14, 2024

Touré of booty: Kolo and Yaya’s outrageous adventures

51 mins; February 13, 2024

Extra Shot: Beckham hounded out of Hong Kong and Christian Horner’s ‘inappropriate pic’

42 mins; February 07, 2024

Hitmen, uzis and nautical gangbangs: the NFL’s biggest wrong’uns

49 mins; February 05, 2024

Extra Shot: Rashford’s miserable bender and pornstars crash Mahrez’s Eid party

36 mins; January 31, 2024

Harry Redknapp: he’s not a fackin’ wheeler dealer

47 mins; January 29, 2024

Extra Shot: defenders snogging dogs and Pele's secret lovechild

39 mins; January 24, 2024

Graham Stack: Arsenal’s unruly Invincible

50 mins; January 22, 2024

Extra Shot: commentators on coke and Ronnie O’Sullivan’s filthy habit

34 mins; January 17, 2024

Mario Balotelli: the Italian Nutjob

57 mins; January 15, 2024

Extra Shot: porn star keepers and that Sadio Mane rumour

29 mins; January 10, 2024

Crack pipes and grave robbing: snooker’s golden age

60 hours 45 mins; January 08, 2024

Diego Maradona and Napoli: mafia pacts and benders at the Vatican

52 mins; January 02, 2024

Unhinged ultras and car chases: the wildest stories of 2023

44 mins; December 26, 2023

Steve Bruce: The No.1 Geordies’ Detective Agency

55 mins; December 19, 2023

Joey Barton: This Charmless Man

57 mins; December 12, 2023

Crazy Gang: how to win cups and traumatise people

55 mins; December 05, 2023

Galácticos: Real Madrid’s sesh-head superstars

53 mins; November 28, 2023

Erling Haaland: I eat the heart and liver (with Lars Sivertsen)

49 mins; November 21, 2023

Ian Botham: weed, wickets and waitresses (with Dom Joly)

53 mins; November 14, 2023

Roy Keane: shove it up your bollocks

55 mins; November 07, 2023

Adrian Mutu: all the gear but no idea

49 mins; November 01, 2023

Serie A stalkers and rugby-playing cannibals: a Halloween special

48 mins; October 24, 2023

David Beckham: the stories Netflix won’t tell you

57 mins; October 17, 2023

Sacre Bleu! French football’s strange and sordid decade

58 mins; October 10, 2023

Mike Ashley: Sports Direct’s biggest mug

47 mins; October 03, 2023

Tiger Woods: Get in the hole!

54 mins; September 26, 2023

Neil Warnock: he’d fookin’ die for you lot

53 mins; September 19, 2023

Wayne Rooney: the gran, the myth, the legend

46 mins; September 12, 2023

Rugby’s biggest reprobates: drink, drugs and “disgusting forfeits”

58 mins; September 05, 2023

Mauro and Wanda Icardi: football’s wildest romance

51 mins; August 29, 2023

Michael Owen: England's weirdo wonderkid

50 mins; August 22, 2023

Ronaldinho: Parties, prison and polygamy

48 mins; August 16, 2023

Biggest wrong'uns of the 2023/24 Premier League season

50 mins; August 09, 2023

Shane Warne: Spin, sex and suspicious partners

43 mins; August 02, 2023

Nicklas Bendtner: Boob job blackmail and bedding Baronesses

46 mins; July 26, 2023

Chelsea’s season from hell: Blunders, bust-ups and Boehly

46 mins; July 19, 2023

The scandalous saga of Jermaine Pennant

45 mins; July 12, 2023

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2 mins; July 04, 2023

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