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 ro...
Plus: Pep’s bollocking teenagers, Ray Parlour’s WW2 punditry and Lazio sack their mascot over his penis operation photoshoot.Join Zach and Jack for another edition of Extra Shot, the weekly pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.If you’re enjoying the pod please share it with your friends on WhatsApp etc so our audience numbers shoot up faster than Juan Bernabe’s prosthetic.Links from the pod:Lazio falconer’s prosthetic penis (NOT suitable for work): https://x.com/Zenxkami/status/1878780545376948298Ray Parlour’s WW2 punditry: https://x.com/AJ_909/status/1878021868940071212 Graeme Souness “that cat’s done nothing wrong”: https://x.com/SkySportsPL/status/1492913779151151105 Pep bollocking autograph hunters: https://x.com/Football__Tweet/status/1878518572357501283 Joe Biden Black and Tans blunder: https://x.com/DazmanOnline/status/1646233718544007187 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Maradona the manager: keep on sucking (part 2)
Welcome back to part two of Diego in the dugout.At the end of part one, Maradona had left football behind to wallow in a life of booze, burgers and booty.But in 2008, he returns to Argentine football for the biggest job of all. And that’s where the chaos really starts…With guest JP Lockwood.Links from the pod:Belly sliding down the touchline against Peru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4sdPODn4S0 Running over a reporter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU_QQBoSphc&t=6s Diego off his face at the 2018 World Cup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY7S4ex-7BM Post match interview for Dorados: https://x.com/ESPNUK/status/1066991711929466880 Doing coke on the touchline: https://www.reddit.com/r/DanLeBatardShow/comments/f63x9t/diego_maradona_getting_a_bag_of_coke_on_the/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Boca Juniors’ syphilis outbreak
Plus: The FA Cup manager keeping crocodiles in his bungalow, Brazil striker Hulk finally marries his niece, and what do Adrian Mutu, Friedrich Nietszche and Hitler have in common?Join Zach and Jack for another edition of Extra Shot, our weekly pod spilling the funniest stories in sport this week.Subscribe to our newsletter and get a five min rundown of the funniest stories in sport in your inbox every Friday:https://www.upshot.email/subscribe?utm_source=pod Links from the pod:Messi speaking English in the Bad Boys 4 trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY1K5pxcX5k Southampton fan booed for predicting 5-0 defeat: https://x.com/HugoScheckter/status/1875613672359522817 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Maradona the manager: all the gear but no idea (part 1)
When you unleash the pure chaos of Diego Maradona in the dugout, it's going to be a wild ride.As a manager, Diego ran over reporters, threatened to kill Liam Gallagher and snorted coke on the touchline.Meet Maradona the manager...With guest JP Lockwood.Links from the pod:Giving two middle fingers to the crowd at Racing Club: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AU1jy8Af1EI Liam Gallagher recalls meeting Diego: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUNHaq_xOEk Partying at Rio Carnival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWlLEdgP2EA Shooting journalists with an air rifle: https://youtu.be/bGDhj26Onq4?si=nYujSHOoDQphgDPs&t=25 Maradona at 19 stone: https://images.app.goo.gl/hw79TiRxmbgSX2ZW9 Doing headers with Pele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjtA1J9XxpA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Burglars, bullseyes, and bathtubs of wine: let’s play darts!
Darts was once a humble pub game where tubby punters hustled pensioners for pork scratchings.But in the 1970s, everything changed.As darts went prime time, a rabble of chain-smoking boozehounds were catapulted to a life of mega stardom, from bathtubs of wine to sex-starved American groupies.Laaaaaaaaaaadieeeeeessss and gentlemeeeeeeeeeeen. Let’s. Play. Darts. With guest Ruth Husko.Links from the pod:Bobby George nipple flap shirt: https://x.com/joshpearson180/status/1692225614252552702 Jocky Wilson popping out false teeth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zau1C6wtcc0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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.Check out our semi-legendary newsletter that goes to 100,000+ subscribers: http://www.upshot.email?utm_source=poddescriptionAnd our Twitter account, where we dig into the archives and spill classic tales from the past: http://www.twitter.com/upshottowers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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