The Upshot

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.

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Jan 3, 2024 · 52 min
Diego Maradona and Napoli: mafia pacts and benders at the Vatican
From benders at the Vatican to binges with the mafia, this is the story of football’s wildest romance…
Dec 27, 2023 · 44 min
Unhinged ultras and car chases: the wildest stories of 2023
It’s been a wild year in the world of sport. And today we celebrate all of it, with our annual awards ceremony: the Shotties…
Dec 20, 2023 · 55 min
Steve Bruce: The No.1 Geordies’ Detective Agency
From stints in the slammer to penning murder mystery novels, meet the Prem’s most misunderstood manager…
Dec 13, 2023 · 57 min
Joey Barton: This Charmless Man
Joey Barton is fucking mental. From cigars in eyes to zoo animals on the loose, this is the story of the Premier League’s biggest wrong’un…
Dec 6, 2023 · 55 min
Crazy Gang: how to win cups and traumatise people
They torched cars, held press conferences naked, and hospitalised each other with dressing room beatings. This is the story of the Crazy Gang…
Nov 29, 2023 · 53 min
Galácticos: Real Madrid’s sesh-head superstars
Hitmen, pigs’ heads and benders with Beckham, this is the story of the Galacticos…
Nov 22, 2023 · 49 min
Erling Haaland: I eat the heart and liver (with Lars Sivertsen)
We’re joined by Haaland expert Lars Sivertsen to explore the weird world of Erling Haaland…
Nov 15, 2023 · 53 min
Ian Botham: weed, wickets and waitresses (with Dom Joly)
We’re joined by Trigger Happy TV creator Dom Joly to discuss a tabloid sensation who survived drug scandals and social media mishaps to make magic on the pitch.
Nov 8, 2023 · 55 min
Roy Keane: shove it up your bollocks
Everyone knows Roy Keane is a mad bastard. The United legend humiliated teammates, knocked out opponents and scrapped with his own manager. But there’s more. So much more.
Nov 1, 2023 · 49 min
Adrian Mutu: all the gear but no idea
From high speed car chases to drinking a porn star's blood, meet the Bad Boy of Bucharest…
Oct 25, 2023 · 48 min
Serie A stalkers and rugby-playing cannibals: a Halloween special
As Halloween draws near, we’ve braved the haunted crypts of Upshot Towers, digging up a selection of macabre, gruesome and terrifying tales.
Oct 18, 2023 · 57 min
David Beckham: the stories Netflix won’t tell you
From knobbing his PA to the “stag do of the millennium”, meet the real David Beckham…
Oct 11, 2023 · 58 min
Sacre Bleu! French football’s strange and sordid decade
Welcome to an incredibly weird, sexually charged, and occasionally glorious decade for French football.
Oct 4, 2023 · 47 min
Mike Ashley: Sports Direct’s biggest mug
From puking in fireplaces to stripping at staff parties, Mike Ashley’s Newcastle reign was a booze-soaked disaster
Sep 27, 2023 · 54 min
Tiger Woods: Get in the hole!
Drug-fuelled car crashes. 121 mistresses. Shagging the next door neighbour's daughter. No one does scandals like Tiger Woods.
Sep 20, 2023 · 53 min
Neil Warnock: he’d fookin’ die for you lot
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 dreams.
Sep 12, 2023 · 46 min
Wayne Rooney: the gran, the myth, the legend
From PVC grannies to spiking his teammates with Viagra, welcome to the wild world of Wazza…
Sep 6, 2023 · 58 min
Rugby’s biggest reprobates: drink, drugs and “disgusting forfeits”
From dealing drugs to defecating on dancefloors, rugby union is filled with absolute wrong uns.
Aug 30, 2023 · 51 min
Mauro and Wanda Icardi: football’s wildest romance
Welcome to football’s most chaotic marriage…
Aug 23, 2023 · 50 min
Michael Owen: England's weirdo wonderkid
For a bloke who won the Ballon d'Or and lit up the World Cup, Michael Owen's life is comically dull.