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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Jul 12, 2023 • 42min
The scandalous saga of Jermaine Pennant
Ankle tags. Threesomes with Ashley Cole. Cat murder cover-ups. No one embodied noughties football excess like Jermaine Pennant.Jack and Zach from The Upshot are joined by Mickey Down (co-creator of HBO/BBC sensation Industry) to delve into the wild life of a Premier League bad-boy.Starting with his hungover hat-trick on debut for Arsenal, we explore some of Jermaine's most colourful antics and biggest scandals, including some utterly ridiculous tales of boozing, law-breaking and tabloid stitch-ups.And there will be the odd mention of actual football too.For more tales of footballing scandal, try our free weekly email, bringing 100,000 subscribers the funniest stories in sport: https://www.upshot.email/subscribe?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=poddescriptionYou can buy Jermaine's book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mental-Behaviour-Ugly-Truths-Beautiful-ebook/dp/B07FV3NDTH/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 4, 2023 • 30sec
This is The Upshot podcast
Welcome to The Upshot podcast. Each week, we'll pull 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
