The Upshot

Sure, Jamie Carragher gobs on children and had a Christmas sex party with Ronald McDonald.

But we all lose our heads sometimes... don't we?

From hotel room "hand shandies" to Yokohama police chases, th…

Plus: Brooklyn Beckham’s latest brainwave, Glen Johnson shoplifting from B&Q, and a Man City midfielder arrested in Madrid.

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The Champions League is back, and the competition is packed with absolute wrong’uns.

Slum landlords. Warmongering paramilitaries. And a man accused of snatching Maddie McCann.

Pull up a padded corporat…

Plus: Jim Ratcliffe turns the axe on the boffins, Daniel Dubois’ terrifying dad, and the FA Cup winner smuggling two tonnes of cocaine.

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Sven-Göran Eriksson.

The name alone transports you to an era of WAGs, fake sheikhs, and a national fixation with Wayne Rooney's metatarsal.

And today we’re celebrating the man himself.

From a fling with…

Plus: Eamonn Holmes sleeps on Fergie’s sofa, Katie Price scraps with beloved broadcasters, and the meth dealer doing pilates with Reece James…

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They call him the greatest footballer who never played: Carlos Henrique Raposo, aka Kaiser.

The Brazilian had a glittering career in the 1980s... without ever kicking a ball.

From orgies with Berluscon…

Plus: Wayne Rooney’s on the ciders, Richard Keys is settling old scores and the Old Bill are arresting players on the pitch…

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**With returning guest Josh Berry.**

Not many athletes can win sport’s biggest prizes while in the grips of a crystal meth addiction or weighed down by a comedy wig.

But Andre Agassi isn’t most athlete…

Plus: Alan Shearer’s trapped in hell, Ben White’s off to fight the Taliban and Gordon Brown’s negotiating transfers

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You probably remember Thomas Gravesen as a wild-eyed Dane who swapped Goodison for the Galacticos.

But off the pitch, he was absolutely insane. 

The Danish midfielder dated pornstars, brought dynamite …

Plus: Remembering Sven, managers on coke and Robbie Earle’s 36 blonde models

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Ronaldo put the naughty in noughties. 

The gap-toothed genius lived on a diet of booze, burgers and Brazilian booty, and still found time to win two Ballon d'Ors.

From half time fags to flogging porn t…

Chelsea in chaos, Nicolas Pepe’s pornstar girlfriend and a Russian chess star poisons her rival mid-game

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The Arsenal dressing room of the 1990s was absolutely mental. 

It was ruled by a riotous ring of badly-behaved boozers like Tony Adams, Paul Merson and Ray Parlour. They called themselves "The Tuesday…

Managers caught in brothels, Wayne Rooney’s x-rated team talks, and is Vincent Kompany an absolute bastard?

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At 20 years old, Jamie Vardy was playing eighth tier football with an ankle tag on. And at 24, he was still working at a prosthetic limbs factory.

Five years later he was a Premier League champion.

Fro…

Pole Vaulters doing porn, Neil Lennon’s Bucharest bender and the turd-riddled Seine claims its first victims. 

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The year is 776BC. A naked man soaked in olive oil is being flogged senseless after false starting in the pentathlon.

Two millennia later, in a sleepy corner of Oxfordshire, civilised adults are clubb…

Ederson’s hissy fit. Trouble in paradise for Lamine Yamal. And “sex marathons” in the Olympic Village.

It’s another edition of Extra Shot, our weekly pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this we…