62 episodes
The Upshot The Upshot
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4.7 • 212 Ratings
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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
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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/1778458736614371809
Opening scene to Juiced: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x33r1ox
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Customer Reviews
Great pod
Funny, well researched and not run by dick heads
Really good stuff this.
Tales of scandal, drunkenness and general chaos from the sporting world. It’s very laddish, lighthearted and thus far, unspoiled by wokeness. They sound like they’re having a lot of fun making this and that carries over really well. Great accompaniment for the email newsletter of the same name.
Hilarious podcast
Well-researched, funny, irreverent - it’ll do for me, Clive. Also, glad it’s not made by a bunch of celebs.