Episodes
On the other side of the world, a bugged goalpost brings tales of the match-fixing king. Having completed his confession, Moses faces up to Troy Deeney's judgement of his incredible story.
Warning this podcast contains language some might find offensive.
Presented by: Moses Swaibu with Troy Deeney
Producers: Stephen Hollywood, Jack Kibble-White and Marion MacNeil
Associate Producer: Moses Swaibu
Music: Julian Corrie.
Sound Design: Julian Corrie and David Martin
Researcher: Jack...
Published 09/24/24
Voices from the past bring new opportunities. But is Moses in or is he out? A fatal miscalculation turns Moses’ life upside down and results in a devastating showdown.
Warning this podcast contains language some might find offensive.
Presented by: Moses Swaibu with Troy Deeney
Producers: Stephen Hollywood, Jack Kibble-White and Marion MacNeil
Associate Producer: Moses Swaibu
Music: Julian Corrie.
Sound Design: Julian Corrie and David Martin
Researcher: Jack Herrall.
Additional scripting:...
Published 09/17/24
What do you do when you come up against the footballer you cannot corrupt? With the fans on his back and the players in open revolt, can Moses pull off the fix of his life?
Warning this podcast contains language some might find offensive.
Presented by: Moses Swaibu with Troy Deeney
Producers: Stephen Hollywood, Jack Kibble-White and Marion MacNeil
Associate Producer: Moses Swaibu
Music: Julian Corrie.
Sound Design: Julian Corrie and David Martin
Researcher: Jack Herrall.
Additional scripting:...
Published 09/10/24
Did you hear the one about the Conference South game that got more bets than Barcelona? With the authorities looking like they’re closing in, can Moses get out first, or will the pull of match-fixing prove too strong?
Warning this podcast contains language some might find offensive.
Presented by: Moses Swaibu with Troy Deeney
Producers: Stephen Hollywood, Jack Kibble-White and Marion MacNeil
Associate Producer: Moses Swaibu
Music: Julian Corrie.
Sound Design: Julian Corrie and David...
Published 09/03/24
More players want in. The money keeps growing. Will Moses’ good times ever end? But as the scale of his match-fixing grows, word travels fast - up the leagues and around the country - and Moses gets a call from a voice from the past.
Warning this podcast contains language some might find offensive.
Presented by: Moses Swaibu with Troy Deeney
Producers: Stephen Hollywood, Jack Kibble-White and Marion MacNeil
Associate Producer: Moses Swaibu
Music: Julian Corrie.
Sound Design: Julian Corrie and...
Published 08/27/24
£100k is sloshing around the footwell, as Moses’ car hurtles through the city at night. As Moses takes his first steps into a dark and dangerous new career, an opportunity presents itself for instant promotion. But the deeper he’s getting into organised crime, the higher the stakes become.
Warning this podcast contains language some might find offensive.
Presented by: Moses Swaibu with Troy Deeney
Producers: Stephen Hollywood, Jack Kibble-White and Marion MacNeil
Associate Producer: Moses...
Published 08/20/24
Moses Swaibu has the makings of a top-flight footballer – until temptation comes his way. At a crossroads in his career, Moses has a massive decision to make: continue to try and fight his way to the top of football, or get in deep with organised crime and betray the game he loves.
Warning: this podcast contains language some might find offensive.
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Presented by: Moses Swaibu with Troy Deeney
Producers: Stephen Hollywood, Jack Kibble-White and Marion MacNeil
Associate...
Published 08/13/24
There’s £60k at the back of the team bus. But if you take it, there’s no turning back. His first child is on the way. He’s arguing with his manager over poor results on the pitch. But Moses has a growing belief he can manipulate players better than his previous mentor, Delroy Facey. It’s time to step up and find out.
Warning this podcast contains language some might find offensive.
Presented by: Moses Swaibu with Troy Deeney
Producers: Stephen Hollywood, Jack Kibble-White and Marion...
Published 08/13/24
Moses Swaibu reveals how he risked it all for a fortune fixing in the English league.
From Crystal Palace’s Young Player of the year, to shifting vast piles of cash and recruiting fellow players to compromise and betray the beautiful game, this is the gob-smacking inside story of how match-fixing was able to spread across an entire English football league. Along the way, Moses encounters some of the world’s most successful and dangerous match-fixers and finds himself drawn deeper and deeper...
Published 08/12/24
Maisie Adam introduces a very special episode of Sport's Strangest Crimes: A French Football Scandal. Aminata Diallo, the footballer awaiting trial for organising an attack on one of her team mates, speaks openly about the case.
Aminata Diallo, in conversation with Charlotte Harpur and Tom Williams, recalls the night of the attack as she remembers it, what happened in the immediate aftermath and the shock of her arrest just hours after starring for PSG against Real Madrid in the Champions...
Published 07/31/24
Maisie Adam continues the astonishing story that has rocked women's football in France.
Its the aftermath of the arrest of Aminata Diallo, she and her lawyers contest the bail terms to allow her to continue her football career abroad.
Kheira Hamraoui, meanwhile, so long the target of acrimonious abuse for supposedly unfairly leading the police to Diallo's door for the original arrest, is suddenly viewed in a more sympathetic light. The public, the fans and the players, or at least those who...
Published 07/24/24
Police wiretaps capture incendiary, and potentially incriminating conversations and whatsapp messages, while statements from the group of men accused of carrying out the attack on Kheira Hamraoui name the mastermind.
Its the most shocking development yet as the police return to the home of Diallo to re-arrest her – and this time she appears before an investigative judge and is charged with three counts of aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy.
Meanwhile selected details gleaned from the...
Published 07/17/24
Maisie Adam continues the shocking story of a brutal attack at Paris Saint-Germain that turned close team-mates into bitter rivals, damaging lives, careers and reputations.
The fragile harmony in the dressing room is finally and irrevocably broken with a training ground bust-up that has repercussions for the team in the Champions League. And pushes the embattled Kheira Hamraoui to breaking point.
Meanwhile head coach Didier Olle-Nicolle who has continued to select Hamraoui for the team...
Published 07/10/24
With one player attacked and another player under suspicion of being involved in it, the return of both Kheira Hamraoui, the victim, and Aminata Diallo, the accused, to the PSG was never going to be straight forward.
Particularly as Diallo had close friends in the squad who felt a raging sense of injustice for their team-mate, who had faced the humiliation of arrest and 36 hours in jail before being released without charge.
And so it proved. The man tasked with trying to juggle and mend...
Published 07/03/24
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French international footballer Kheira Hamraoui is in shock after being dragged from the car of her PSG team-mate Aminata Diallo, and then having her legs beaten black and blue by a masked man. But who did it? And who planned it? And why?
Diallo goes unscathed during the attack, and takes her injured team-mate's place in the team to face Real Madrid in the...
Published 06/26/24
Maisie Adam continues the incredible story of the organised hit on the French international footballer that took place in the leafy suburbs of Paris in November 2021.
Despite a flying start to the season for the PSG's women's team there are the first rumblings of discontent and trouble behind the scenes.
Head coach Didier Olle-Nicolle discovers Kheira Hamraoui in tears at the training ground and makes an alarming discovery about some mysterious and disturbing phonecalls made to her PSG...
Published 06/19/24
Maisie Adam introduces the story of a brutal attack at Paris Saint-Germain that turned close teammates into bitter rivals just months after a holiday in paradise together.
Aminata Diallo and Kheira Hamraoui, both French international midfielders at PSG, one of the biggest clubs in world football, appeared to be the best of friends. In the summer of 2021 they spent a vacation together in Zanzibar on the coast of East Africa, ahead of the new season.
Yet within months Diallo would be...
Published 06/12/24
Maisie Adam tells the shocking story of jealousy, deceit and a brutal attack on a Paris Saint-Germain player that turned team-mates into the bitterest enemies.
Its a story that has gripped the French public since the arrest of PSG star Aminata Diallo in November 2021, suspected of ordering an attack on her team-mate and previously good friend, Kheira Hamraoui.
The accusation was Diallo wanted Hamraoui's place in the PSG starting line-up and so instructed a group of masked men to intercept the...
Published 06/11/24
Steve Bunce and Lennox Lewis on one of the most recognisable and enduring figures in sport, Boxing promoter Don King, with contributions from rivals, law enforcers and fighters
Published 05/30/24
Warning: This episode contains strong language.
In the eighth episode, Bruiser’s friends and family reckon with the aftermath of his death - and the wrestling world rallies round to remember one of the greats.
Bruiser Brody was a wrestling star in the 1970s and 1980s; a classic villain of the ring, and a foil for wrestling heroes like Bruno Sammartino and Ric Flair. When he was killed in the dressing room before a fight in Puerto Rico, it shocked the world of wrestling, and pulled back the...
Published 05/08/24
In the seventh episode, Puerto Rico reels from news of the killing; but as Jose pleads self-defence, the police and courts struggle to get to the bottom of what really happened to Bruiser Brody.
Bruiser Brody was a wrestling star in the 1970s and 1980s; a classic villain of the ring, and a foil for wrestling heroes like Bruno Sammartino and Ric Flair. When he was killed in the dressing room before a fight in Puerto Rico, it shocked the world of wrestling, and pulled back the curtain on a...
Published 05/01/24
In the sixth episode, Adam explores the extraordinary story of Invader One - Jose Huertas Gonzalez - as he prepares for a showdown with Bruiser Brody.
Bruiser Brody was a wrestling star in the 1970s and 1980s; a classic villain of the ring, and a foil for wrestling heroes like Bruno Sammartino and Ric Flair. When he was killed in the dressing room before a fight in Puerto Rico, it shocked the world of wrestling, and pulled back the curtain on a world full of rumour, fakeouts and mystery....
Published 04/24/24
In the fifth episode, as the WWE takes over the American market, Bruiser turns to the even more high octane and raw world of wrestling in Puerto Rico - where he once again encounters Invader One, a local hero who he’s feuded with before.
Bruiser Brody was a wrestling star in the 1970s and 1980s; a classic villain of the ring, and a foil for wrestling heroes like Bruno Sammartino and Ric Flair. When he was killed in the dressing room before a fight in Puerto Rico, it shocked the world of...
Published 04/17/24
Warning: This episode contains strong language.
In the fourth episode, the increasingly confident Bruiser Brody starts clashing with managers and promoters, earning a wild card reputation that puts him in danger.
Bruiser Brody was a wrestling star in the 1970s and 1980s; a classic villain of the ring, and a foil for wrestling heroes like Bruno Sammartino and Ric Flair. When he was killed in the dressing room before a fight in Puerto Rico, it shocked the world of wrestling, and pulled back the...
Published 04/10/24