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Winter Olympics: Hitler’s mistress and hot tub orgies

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Privacy is for paedos: the phone hacking scandal (part two)

Stripper jiggled, prince giggled: the phone hacking scandal (part one)

Mikhalio Mudryk is banned AGAIN | Extra Shot

Roy Keane turns on Carrick’s wife and Ryan Wedding arrested

On the pod today:

- Yaya Toure’s tiny-cocked doppelganger

- The top flight coach who picks his team on Chat GPT

- And the game’s up for cocaine snowboarder Ryan Wedding

Links from the pod:

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Graeme Souness: for me that cat’s done nothing wrong (with Vittorio Angelone) | Part two

Graeme faces death threats, confronts gun-wielding players and is duped into signing striker by a telephone prankster.

After five glorious years in Glasgow, Graeme Souness has been hounded out of his homeland by a terrifying tea lady.

But he’s about to step into the biggest job of a...

Graeme Souness: he’s scared of the tea lady (with Vittorio Angelone) | Part one

From gun-wielding strikers to love triangles with George Best, this is his story…

In his glory years, Graeme Souness was a bonafide hunk who dated Miss World, won 3 European Cups and took meetings with his knob out.

Which makes you wonder: why is he such a moody bastard?

The L...

The REAL reason Brooklyn fell out with the Beckhams

Plus:

- Liam Rosenior’s kinky DMs  

- And all the fallout from a MENTAL Afcon final

Links from the pod:

Liam Rosenior splits the word 'manager' in two:

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Lutz Pfannenstiel: he kidnapped a penguin (with Jason Manford)

They say you have to be mad to be a goalkeeper.

And nobody is more batshit crazy than Lutz Pfannenstiel, the German stopper who played for 25 clubs on 6 continents.

He kidnapped penguins, threatened to knock out Take That and spent 101 days in a grisly Singapore slammer.

From fi...

Benders with TV stars and skiing’s penis enlargement scandal | Extra shot

On the show today:

- Winter Olympics rocked by penis enlargement scandal

- Pierce Brosnan’s mugged off by a boxing legend

- Mark Goldbridge’s porn star vision…

Links from the pod:

Mark Goldbridge analogy: 2026-01-15 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Ruben Amorim: we are the worst team in Man United history

In September 2024 the world was a very different place. 

Sleepy Joe was in the White House, The United Strand had a short back and sides, and Ruben Amorim was the most vaunted young coach in Europe.

But 14 months on, United’s latest saviour left a familiar mess in his wake: see...

Jerry Springer: kung fu hillbillies and romps with guests (part two)

It’s 1998, and Jerry Springer is the King of daytime TV.

But he’s heading for a fall…

Thomas Tuchel on the pull in Notting Hill | The funniest stories in sport this week

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Change to the podcast

Happy New Year Shotters,

We’ve decided to trial a change to the podcast and release 2 or 3 fewer episodes a month, so we can free up time for some exciting plans.

As a loyal Patreon member, you will still receive an exclusive episode every week.

That episode w...

Love triangles and landlords from hell: AFCON’s wildest scandals

From pornstar girlfriends to birthday cakes delivered by concorde, buckle in for African football’s maddest moments…

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Mbutu leopard outfit: 2026-01-06 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Luke Littler: Darts. Kebabs. Vapes. In that order.

The Rope and Anchor, 2013.

The pub’s 53-year-old darts champion gulps as his opponent puts down his PSP and step up to the oche.

It’s Luke Littler, the six year old sensation whose rise to the top has just begun.

From splurging prize money on vapes to chirpsing girls on Xbox...

Jerry Springer: the steamiest show on TV (part one)

In the naughty 90s, Jerry Springer was the moral compass of the nation.

Every day, 8 million Americans tuned in to watch the former Cincinnati mayor grill obese babies, horse shaggers and mother daughter dominatrix duos.

But it turned out he was the worst of the lot.

From knobbi...

Smugglers, syphilis and a Neymar’s farmyard orgy: the wildest stories of 2025

Join us as we dish out the only gongs more worthless than Fifa’s peace prize.

LINKS FROM THE POD:

Lamine Yamal party: https://x.com/JackMacCFB/status/1944719886992744913

Emmanuel Petit ...

Inside Messi’s Indian catastrophe | The funniest stories in sport this week

Plus: Samuel Eto’o’s AFCON meltdown and a knife-wielding Sunderland striker.

Get tickets to to the Upshot’s Live shows in April: https://www.livenation.co.uk/the-upshot-live-tickets-adp...

Upshot Christmas Live Stream

Fake Sheikh: the king of the sting UNMASKED (part two)

From Jerry Springer’s threesomes to infiltrating the Taliban, this is the story of The Fake Sheikh…

Mazher Mahmood has been caught out using the claims of a serial fantasist to flog a bollocks story about Posh Spice being kidnapped.

And his downfall has only just begun…

Fake Sheikh: the grubbiest hack on Fleet Street (part one)

Dubai, 2006. Sven Goran Eriksson sips Dom Perignon with an Arabian prince on the deck of a 70ft superyacht.

But Sven’s white-robed companion is no oil-rich Emir: it’s the Fake Sheikh.

For three devious decades, the tabloid hack lived life undercover, exposing everyone from murdero...

Upshot Christmas special livestream on Weds at 7pm

From God cucking Joseph to the stingiest man in Britain, meet the wrong uns of Christmas.

LIVE on Patreon, Wednesday 17th of December at 7pm.

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Gary Medel: I was loco

Some say football's gone soft, but try telling that to midfield madman Gary Medel.

The Inter Milan legend pulled guns on fans, hosted orgies before matches, and got tasered by police.

In his own words: “If I wasn't a footballer, I’d be a drug

 trafficker.”

Meet ...

Ivan Toney’s nightclub headbutt | The funniest stories in sport this week

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Plus: England’s Ashes flops are throwing cash ...

The Beckhams: a bunch of spicy bints (with Finlay Christie)

Britain already has a royal family.

But if the entire Windsor bloodline is ever wiped out in a freak yachting accident, there’s a ready made replacement.

The Beckhams.

For two glorious decades, Victoria, David and their offspring have ruled the worlds of music, sport and bacon...

Troy Parrott crashes down to earth | The funniest stories in sport this week

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Plus: The BBC colleague who drove Wayne Rooney to get the...

Firebombs, fivesomes and fraudsters: the wrong’uns of the Ashes

Meet the the most bastardly bowlers and fuckboy fielders that have ever graced the Ashes…

Ian Botham vs. the Scottish students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGH6x98lE

Kevin Keegan: a series of unfortunate events

The name Kevin Keegan should conjure images of glittering European nights, mazy dribbles and Balon d’Or wins.

But for most people, football’s unluckiest icon is remembered for four words: I WOULD LOVE IT.

And he’s had plenty of bad luck.

He was beaten up by drug dealers, d...