The Upshot
Episodes
Loris Karius rejected from Berghain and Matt Le Tissier vs. the shapeshifting lizards
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Zachary Sweeney-Lynch (https://twitter.com/zachary_sl) and Jack Rivlin (https://twitter.com/jackrivlin) for Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling...
John Daly: let’s party cocksucker
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
He was the big hitting, booze-swigging, chain-smoking bad boy of golf.The blazers tried to ban him, but John Daly was the people’s champion.From kni...
Extra Shot: Sven’s boozy breakfast and Brooklyn Beckham sacked again
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. This week: Jesse Lingard’s nightmare in Seoul, u...
Kidnapped teammates and McMuffin melees: a Scottish football special
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
These days, the Premier League is filled with sinister billionaires and Gucci-clad stars doing Tik Tok dances with Salt Bae.But up in Scotland, footba...
Extra Shot: wonderkids in strip clubs and Arteta’s tribute to seedy saunas
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. Club chairmen gobbing on fans, Luke Littler turns ...
Gary Neville: mini-retirements and mashed potato meltdowns
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Neville is a seriously intense bloke.He bollocks innocent school boys, yells at potatoes, and humiliates his own brother in front of millions of ...
Extra Shot: when Courtois shagged De Bruyne’s girlfriend and Sean Dyche’s restaurant scrap
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. Ainsley Harriott caught in a football riot, belove...
Brian Clough: feuds, fairytales and fookin’ cheats
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There aren’t many football managers who’d start a fight with Muhammad Ali.But Brian Clough isn’t most football managers.The acid-tongued genius ...
Extra shot: Messi hungry for blood and Jesse Lingard’s awful chat up lines
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. Samuel Eto’s mafia revolution, Tyson Fury’s pl...
Faustino Asprilla: Colombia’s finest export
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Faustino Asprilla once summed up his philosophy: "lots of sex, no rules and pure life.”The Newcastle cult hero boozed on the team bus, brought a gun...
Extra shot: Jadon Sancho’s playstation addiction and cocaine smuggler Quincy Promes back in cuffs
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week. More F1 toilet antics, Pep insults Foden, and a mo...
John Terry: Captain, Leader, Bellend
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Terry is a proper wrong'un.The ex-Chelsea captain punches paps, pisses in pint glasses, and shags on motorway hard shoulders.This is the story of...
Surprise Shot: the Christian Horner WhatsApp leak
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Christian Horner’s WhatsApp message leak online, Jack brings you a surprise mini-edition on the gory details of a saga they're calling Google Dri...
Extra shot: Mourinho’s undercover nemesis and George Best’s Bond Girl bust-up
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.Jurgen Klopp’s trousers cost him a job, the espionage ...
F1: the stories Drive to Survive won't tell you
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
These days F1 drivers have all the personality of a gently steamed leek.But they weren't always so dull. From shootouts with drug lords to “int...
Extra shot: Premier League weed farms and a Tinder date gone wrong
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.This week: A Premier League weed farm, Erling Haaland’...
Jesé Rodriguez: a wonderkid gone wild
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You might remember Jese Rodriguez as a misfiring Stoke striker with a penchant for godawful nightclubs.But his off-field antics are worthy of a soap o...
Extra shot: Heung-Min Son’s hotel scrap and an FA Cup love triangle
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.This week: Son’s ping pong ding dong, Fergie’s spout...
Touré of booty: Kolo and Yaya’s outrageous adventures
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Ivorian brothers hoovered up silverware, shagged in car parks and led secret double lives.From cursing managers to comparing knobs, this is the st...
Extra Shot: Beckham hounded out of Hong Kong and Christian Horner’s ‘inappropriate pic’
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.This week: Beckham and Messi face the rabid mob in Hong ...
Hitmen, uzis and nautical gangbangs: the NFL’s biggest wrong’uns
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Firing Uzis at snowball fights. Begging cops for blowjobs. Smoking crack on game day.The NFL is filled with some absolute mad dawwwwgs.As the Super Bo...
Extra Shot: Rashford’s miserable bender and pornstars crash Mahrez’s Eid party
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.This week: Rashford’s awful Belfast bender, Riyad Mahr...
Harry Redknapp: he’s not a fackin’ wheeler dealer
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
They don't make 'em like Harry Redknapp any more.The West Ham gaffer struck deals like Del Boy, bollocked players on live TV, and sent fans on as subs...
Extra Shot: defenders snogging dogs and Pele's secret lovechild
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.This week: Claire Foden's in cuffs, Pele’s secret love...
Graham Stack: Arsenal’s unruly Invincible
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There was one player in Arsène Wenger’s Invincibles squad who couldn't be tamed.He punched fans, crashed the team bus and flogged fake Gucci to Thi...
Extra Shot: commentators on coke and Ronnie O’Sullivan’s filthy habit
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Extra Shot, our Thursday pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.This week: The frat boy who took down Ajax, Wesley Fofan...
Mario Balotelli: the Italian Nutjob
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mario Balotelli was the Premier League’s most notorious nutcase.From lobbing darts at teammates to burning his own house down, the striker wreaks ha...
Extra Shot: porn star keepers and that Sadio Mane rumour
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Extra Shot, our new Thursday show where we discuss the funniest stories in sport this week.On the pod this week: footballers dragged into t...
Crack pipes and grave robbing: snooker’s golden age
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
These days, snooker crowds are full of dozing pensioners nibbling corned beef sandwiches.But the sport was once a hotbed of booze, crack pipes and sha...
Diego Maradona and Napoli: mafia pacts and benders at the Vatican
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Maradona and Napoli: it was football's wildest romance.A head-spinning cocktail of devotion, chaos and glory - plus enough drugs to kill a horse...
Unhinged ultras and car chases: the wildest stories of 2023
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cocaine-fuelled car chases. Ultras invading orgies. And Kyle Walker waving his willy around a Manchester bar.It’s been a wild year in the world of s...
Steve Bruce: The No.1 Geordies’ Detective Agency
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
He fights gangs, pens murder mysteries and once served a stint in the slammer.Steve Bruce is not who you think he is.From con tricks to cabbage crimes...
Joey Barton: This Charmless Man
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joey Barton is fucking mental.He punches children, quotes Nietzsche, and once sunk his teeth into his own club captain. And that’s just the tame stu...
Crazy Gang: how to win cups and traumatise people
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It was football’s wildest fairytale: in ten years ramshackle Wimbledon went from non-league to the top flight and FA Cup glory.But that’s only hal...
Galácticos: Real Madrid’s sesh-head superstars
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The year is 1999 - Real Madrid are at war.Legendary striker Raul brands the dressing room “a cesspit of lies, treachery and whispers”.Something ha...
Erling Haaland: I eat the heart and liver (with Lars Sivertsen)
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Erling Haaland isn’t like other humans.He gorges on chicken livers, raps about world peace, and wakes up to the Champions League anthem. Every day.A...
Ian Botham: weed, wickets and waitresses (with Dom Joly)
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger Happy TV creator Dom Joly joins us to discuss a tabloid sensation who smoked weed, punched coppers and made magic on the pitch.From drug scand...
Roy Keane: shove it up your bollocks
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows Roy Keane is a mad bastard.The United legend humiliated teammates, knocked out opponents and scrapped with his own manager.But there’...
Adrian Mutu: all the gear but no idea
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You might remember Adrian Mutu as a promising Chelsea striker with a taste for cocaine.But Class As weren’t his only vice.From high speed car chases...
Serie A stalkers and rugby-playing cannibals: a Halloween special
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rugby playing cannibals. Stalkers in Serie A. Ghostly visitations from the late George Best.As Halloween draws near, we’ve braved the haunted crypts...
David Beckham: the stories Netflix won’t tell you
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With his good looks, magic right boot and penchant for queueing, David Beckham is a national treasure.But you didn’t tune in to hear about all that,...
Sacre Bleu! French football’s strange and sordid decade
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Masked hitmen. Sex tape blackmail. Organ harvesting allegations.It’s been an incredibly weird, sexually charged, and occasionally glorious decade fo...
Mike Ashley: Sports Direct’s biggest mug
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Ashley's Newcastle reign was a disaster for fans, and behind the scenes it was booze-soaked chaos. The giant mug magnate enjoyed 14 years of dru...
Tiger Woods: Get in the hole!
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drug-fuelled car crashes. 121 mistresses. Shagging the next door neighbour's daughter.No one does scandals like Tiger Woods.But if you think you know ...
Neil Warnock: he’d fookin’ die for you lot
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
They don't make managers like Neil Warnock anymore. He gave team talks naked, cut his players' toe nails and picked the team based on his wife's drea...
Wayne Rooney: the gran, the myth, the legend
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Wayne Rooney burst onto the scene in 2002, there was only one nagging doubt.Would he have the sordid private life to match his undeniable footbal...
Rugby’s biggest reprobates: drink, drugs and “disgusting forfeits”
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you like to think rugby is a civilised sport played by gentlemen, stop reading now. From dealing drugs to defecating on dancefloors, the sport is ...
Mauro and Wanda Icardi: football’s wildest romance
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From human trafficking charges to arson, Mauro Icardi's love life has thrown up some ludicrous drama. The former PSG striker and his wife Wanda are t...
Michael Owen: England's weirdo wonderkid
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For a bloke who won the Ballon d'Or and lit up the World Cup, Michael Owen's life is comically dull. The England legend has never tasted tea or coffe...
Ronaldinho: Parties, prison and polygamy
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid 2000s Ronaldinho was the king of football... and an absolute shagger. But the madcap world of the buck-toothed genius was about to come cr...
Biggest wrong'uns of the 2023/24 Premier League season
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Premier League doesn’t just specialise in high quality football and obscene sums of cash - it does a lovely side business in scandals too.Ahead ...
Shane Warne: Spin, sex and suspicious partners
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shane Warne wasn't like other sportsmen. A sex-mad cricketing genius, he once summed up his life: "I smoked, I drank, and I bowled a bit of leg spin....
Nicklas Bendtner: Boob job blackmail and bedding Baronesses
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You might remember Nicklas Bendtner as a misfiring Arsenal striker with godawful tattoos. But what he lacked in goals, he made up for in scintillatin...
Chelsea’s season from hell: Blunders, bust-ups and Boehly
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Roman Abramovich sold Chelsea, the fans feared the worst. And it turns out they were right! Todd Boehly's first season in charge has been an abs...
The scandalous saga of Jermaine Pennant
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ankle tags. Threesomes with Ashley Cole. Cat murder cover-ups. No one embodied noughties football excess like Jermaine Pennant.Jack and Zach from The ...
This is The Upshot podcast
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 tou...