The Upshot
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 207
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
George Best: booze, Bond girls and bust-ups (part one)
George Best once said: “If I had to choose between scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging Miss World, it’d be a hard choice. Thankfully, I’ve done both.”
And he did far more than that.
The United…
Mesut Ozil’s mugger speaks out
Plus: The Pogba witch trials begin and the teetotal snooker star KO’d by a pre-match spliff
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Hulk Hogan: sex, lies and videotape
Laaaaadiiiiiies and gentleman, From Tampa, Florida. Weighing in 302lb.
The fiiiiiive time WWF champion. Serial adulterer, steroid addict and sex tape star.
Hollywood. Hulk. Hoooooogaaaaaan.
You are li…
Yet another David Coote scandal
Plus: Mauro Icardi's bonking his barrister, Nottingham Forest owner charged with a violent crime and the World champ boxer kidnapping nerds to carry out his criminal schemes.
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Jack Grealish: the best thing since sliced veg
It’s 8am in Tenerife. A hungover tourist is peeling his face off the street as Spanish commuters swerve to avoid him.
Little do they know, the semi-conscious sesh head is one of the brightest prospect…
Conor McGregor tracks down his teenage tormentors
Plus: Mo Farah hunting muggers, yet another BBC dirty dog, and the gory details of Eddie Jones’ reign of terror.
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Mike Tyson: I’ll eat your children (part 3)
From threatening to devour Lennox Lewis’ children to coked-up Hollywood cameos, join us for the third and final part of the Mike Tyson story.
With guest Will Richards.
Links from the pod:
Mike at Wrestl…
Mike Tyson: end of an eara (part two)
1991. After a shock defeat to Buster Douglas, Mike Tyson goes off the rails.
And things are about to get much darker…
With guest Will Richards.
Links from the pod:
Trash talking George Foreman: https://w…
Refs on the sesh and Des Lynam’s saucy past
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The David Coote videos: https://x.com/Josh97LFC/status/1855968…
Mike Tyson: the scariest man on the planet (part one)
The year is 1977. An 11-year-old Mike Tyson is high on acid, terrorising the people of Brooklyn with a world war one bayonet.
Little did they know, this wild-eyed urchin is destined to become the youn…
Jar Jar Bonks: Episode III
Is Jarrell Quansah the horniest man in the Prem? An investigation.
Plus: Frank Lampard is the face of crystal meth and Ruben Amorim gets his first taste of Fleet Street’s bastard journalists.
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Erik Ten Hag: the damned United
Since Alex Ferguson retired, Old Trafford has been a graveyard for Europe’s top coaches.
Mourinho. Van Gaal. Rangnick.
But when Erik Ten Hag strapped himself into the hot seat, United fans thought it w…
Vinicius Junior’s sad 7am sesh
Plus: Liverpool youngster propositions pornstars, bent Ballon d’Or voters and Kobbie Mainoo’s miserable Megabus.
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Hamraoui Affair: civil war at PSG (pt.2)
It’s the true crime tale that shook French football.
Two midfield rivals. A vicious twilight assault. And a bitter feud that sucked in everyone from Eric Abidal to Kylian Mbappe.
This is part two of th…
Masked hitmen and flings with Eric Abidal: the Hamraoui Affair (pt.1)
It’s the true crime tale that shook French football.
Two midfield rivals. A vicious twilight assault. And a bitter feud that sucked in everyone from Eric Abidal to Kylian Mbappe.
This is the story of t…
Zinchenko’s kitchen nightmares
Plus: David James shatters an 11 year old’s dreams, Kevin Pietersen is barred from an exclusive golf club, and the bent ref exposed by his pet parrot.
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Wife swapping and pitchers on LSD: baseball’s seedy century
These days, baseball is ruled by a solemn army of laptop-wielding spreadsheet gurus.
But in its glorious heyday, America’s national past-time was a seedy hotbed of wife swapping, crack smoking and kni…
Thomas Tuchel moaning, groaning and barking
Plus: Fergie’s banned from the United dressing room, Man City’s biggest shaggers revealed and Kyle Walker’s naughty neighbour.
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Duncan Ferguson: I knocked the burglar’s teeth out
He was football’s most terrifying hardman.
The Everton legend hospitalised burglars, terrorised German exchange students and was the first footballer jailed for an on-field offence.
From fights with fi…
Celtic striker’s 100 mph police chase
Plus: Bielsa makes Darwin Nunez cry, Conor McGregor banned from the Emirates, and John Arne Riise’s chat-up lines.
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