

The Upshot
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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May 7, 2024 • 1h 1min
Dennis Rodman: she put pasta up my butt
Dennis Rodman is a one of a kind, certified, gold-plated, Grade A, unadulterated nutter.He headbutted refs, went on benders with Kim Jong Un and flew 5,000 miles to shag Madonna. For cash.From pasta up the bum to 9 day marriages, buckle in for his utterly insane story…How he broke his dick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3zDKkoNMcgFighting alongside Hulk Hogan at Bash on the Beach Wrestling: https://youtu.be/EYSyHdeG5wY?si=F_1tnhyo_IpXiF6d&t=201Calls radio phone in while getting blowjob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbDAybNcfoGet the week’s funniest stories in sport in 3 minutes with our free Friday email: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

May 2, 2024 • 36min
England star tasered in Majorca and a thirsty sheikh’s seedy bash
Join Zach and Jack for Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.Plus: Monty Panesar in the corridors of power, a Sheffield United star’s crime spree and Rodrigo Muniz meets Princess Diana…Links from the pod:Billy Vunipola getting tasered: https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1785230252253302802/video/1Monty Panesar on Mastermind: https://twitter.com/AndyHa_/status/1083832017979142144 Rodrigo Muniz Madame Tussauds video: https://twitter.com/BBCMOTD/status/1776188030333964396Rodrigo Muniz Birmingham safari park video:https://twitter.com/BBCMOTD/status/1776135178441597306 Sign up for our Friday newsletter spilling more of sport’s funniest stories: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 30, 2024 • 59min
Neymar: red knobs and broomsticks
Surprise stabbings. Crazed stalkers. Broomsticks up bums.Neymar's life is like a Netflix drama.From punching Parisians to bankrolling his dad's orgies, welcome to ludicrous life of Sao Paolo’s most salacious son…Ultras chanting “Neymar fuck off” outside his house: https://twitter.com/UpshotTowers/status/1678729050381058049 Get the week’s funniest stories in sport in 3 minutes with our free Friday email:http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 25, 2024 • 43min
David Haye hunting for hotties and Arda Turan’s secret sex swing
Join Zach and George for Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.On the pod: Boxers marrying porn stars, gun-wielding gangsters stalk New Zealand’s rugby league, and is Mark Clattenburg being held hostage?Links from the pod:Wine drinking marathon runner: https://twitter.com/NikHunt_/status/1782861259873849675 Sign up for our Friday newsletter spilling more of sport’s funniest stories: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 23, 2024 • 54min
Rat poison cocktails and flogging false starters: marathon madness
For most of us, marathon season is a time to hide in the stationary cupboard while Pauline from accounts shakes the tin for her local donkey sanctuary. But things were a little different in the old days.They drank rat poison, got chased by wild dogs and flogged false starters.Buckle in for marathon madness…Thomas Hicks carried across finish line: https://images.app.goo.gl/CJxzoyPErKtfxsdv5 Uncle Chen smoking: https://news.sky.com/story/chinese-chain-smoking-marathon-runner-completes-26-miles-in-less-than-three-and-a-half-hours-12748278 Runner shitting on the lawn in Boston: https://twitter.com/BabzOnTheMic/status/1648028215657525250Guy knocking down the water bottles: https://twitter.com/1Fubar/status/1424970964069015553 Sign up for our newsletter: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 18, 2024 • 36min
Messi fights Mexicans in Miami and Neymar ruins his daughter’s birthday
Join Zachary Sweeney-Lynch (https://twitter.com/zachary_sl) and Jack Rivlin (https://twitter.com/jackrivlin) for Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. This week: the top flight keeper blinding opponents with a laser pen, Di Canio’s run in with a Millwall taxi driver, and Joey Barton is still an absolute scumbag.Links from the pod:Neymar playing poker at his daughter’s birthday: https://twitter.com/KyKySZN/status/1778461735663342062 Al-Ittihad player whipped by a fan: https://twitter.com/AJE_Sport/status/1778684205968368118 Nahuel Guzman shining a laser: https://twitter.com/absalon78/status/1779398512423153862 Sign up for our Friday newsletter spilling more of sport’s funniest stories: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 16, 2024 • 1h 4min
OJ Simpson: he definitely did it
When you hear the name OJ Simpson, you’ll no doubt recall his famous 1973 NFL season and his supporting role in Naked Gun 2.But did you know he once got in a little bit of trouble with the police too?Join Jack, Zach and Roisin Lanigan for the true crime tale of a sporting icon and the trial of the century…Ruby Wax interview 1998: https://twitter.com/mrkphllps1/status/1778458736614371809Opening scene to Juiced: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x33r1oxSign up for our newsletter: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 11, 2024 • 42min
Loris Karius rejected from Berghain and Matt Le Tissier vs. the shapeshifting lizards
Join Zachary Sweeney-Lynch (https://twitter.com/zachary_sl) and Jack Rivlin (https://twitter.com/jackrivlin) for Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. This week: QPR’s mascot sacked for flirting with female fans, Graham Potter’s brush with the criminal underworld, and the inside scoop from the Hardest Geezer’s afterparty.Links from the pod:Hardest geezer fundraising page: https://givestar.io/gs/PROJECTAFRICA? Loris Karius Berghain outfit: https://www.instagram.com/p/C487lKILwHt/?hl=en&img_index=1 Hardest Geezer finish line video: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5d201bo2uJ/ Sign up for our Friday newsletter spilling more of sport’s funniest stories: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 9, 2024 • 54min
John Daly: let’s party cocksucker
He was the big hitting, booze-swigging, chain-smoking bad boy of golf.The blazers tried to ban him, but John Daly was the people’s champion.From knife-wielding lovers to tossing $55k off a bridge, meet the Wild Thing…Trump discusses “hitting Moscow” with Daly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o5FKR_xH1oHitting balls on to motorway video: https://twitter.com/NUCLRGOLF/status/1738251320933437935Music albums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmmi59IUEY&pp=ygUPam9obiBkYWx5IG11c2ljSign up for our newsletter: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apr 4, 2024 • 36min
Extra Shot: Sven’s boozy breakfast and Brooklyn Beckham sacked again
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. This week: Jesse Lingard’s nightmare in Seoul, unhinged Old Firm fans, and the inside scoop from Quincy Promes’ jail cell.Get your tickets to the live show on Saturday 15th June: https://tickets.halfmoon.co.uk/events/b8a44a6a-5f31-466c-af79-8dc762a488a3 Links from the pod:UFC fighter sacks coach on TV: https://twitter.com/oscarswillis/status/1756753626301972800 Sign up for our Friday newsletter spilling more of sport’s funniest stories: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices


