64 episodes

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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The Upshot The Upshot

    • Sports
    • 5.0 • 25 Ratings

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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    Davor Suker caught stealing antiques and snooker champion battered by police

    Davor Suker caught stealing antiques and snooker champion battered by police

    Join Zach and Jack for Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.
    On the pod: Emmanuel Frimpong is the housemate from hell, Jamie Vardy’s sweary daughter, and footballers with gangster dads.
    Links from the pod:
    Dennis Rodman face tattoo: https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/tulsaworld.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/69/c69e01c7-134e-50e9-8bd7-a2d2aa3d9088/64aae357acb59.image.jpg
    Vardy’s daughter saying f**k off: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6nz77-MRyh/?igsh=cWZ1NXJ0YXJvenYz&img_index=1
    Jack Butland arguing with fans: https://twitter.com/jaymurray67/status/1787741946045243415
    Mark Goldbridge defending himself: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6pGNk_qDRb/?igsh=cHdlbjAxd3JnbTNp
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    • 34 min
    Dennis Rodman: she put pasta up my butt

    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=p3zDKkoNMcg
    Fighting alongside Hulk Hogan at Bash on the Beach Wrestling: https://youtu.be/EYSyHdeG5wY?si=F_1tnhyo_IpXiF6d&t=201
    Calls radio phone in while getting blowjob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbDAybNcfo
    Get the week’s funniest stories in sport in 3 minutes with our free Friday email: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=podlink

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    • 58 min
    England star tasered in Majorca and a thirsty sheikh’s seedy bash

    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/1
    Monty Panesar on Mastermind: https://twitter.com/AndyHa_/status/1083832017979142144 
    Rodrigo Muniz Madame Tussauds video: https://twitter.com/BBCMOTD/status/1776188030333964396
    Rodrigo Muniz Birmingham safari park video:
    https://twitter.com/BBCMOTD/status/1776135178441597306 
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    • 33 min
    Neymar: red knobs and broomsticks

    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 f**k 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

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    • 56 min
    David Haye hunting for hotties and Arda Turan’s secret sex swing

    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

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    • 39 min
    Rat poison cocktails and flogging false starters: marathon madness

    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/1648028215657525250
    Guy knocking down the water bottles: https://twitter.com/1Fubar/status/1424970964069015553 
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    • 50 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
25 Ratings

25 Ratings

Lemiz2720 ,

killer show

Hilarious and well researched- def recommend!

shacredandblack ,

Great podcast

Very funny and well researched

Mr miagey ,

Very Funny

Keeps me laughing and entertained!

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