
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: www.upshot.email?utm_source=poddescriptionAnd our Twitter account, where we dig into... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 238 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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Dubai, 2006. Sven Goran Eriksson sips Dom Perignon with an Arabian prince on the deck of a 70ft superyacht.
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The content is centered around the humorous and often outrageous side of sports, focusing on lesser-known stories that mainstream outlets avoid. With episodes featuring funny anecdotes about athletes' pasts, lighthearted banter about sports culture, and outrageous incidents from the sports world, it showcases a witty perspective on celebrity sports figures. Noteworthy episodes highlight everything from personal scandals and eccentric behavior to humorous takeaways from historical sporting events, making it particularly appealing to those who enjoy comedy intertwined with sports commentary.
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