Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily
From the Archives : The Monkey Testicle Doping Scandal - Sports Bizarre
24 Jan 2025
In the 1930s, several English football clubs experimented with a new treatment sweeping the globe, ingesting, injecting or transplanting testicular tissue from monkeys into people. So widespread was the practice that the 1939 FA Cup final between Wolverhampton and Portsmouth became known as the ‘Monkey Gland Final’. Titus O'Reily and Mick Molloy, look back at arguably the strangest doping scandal of all time and the coaching career of Major Frank Buckley, who trialled the treatment at Wolverhampton.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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