The Upshot

Sports & Recreation Podcasts

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.

Episodes

Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup dogging hotspot

England 2007-2017: that’s why mugs lose to Iceland (part two)

Raheem Sterling’s 9am balloon arrest

England’s terrible 2010s: wallies, WAGs and webcams

Arsenal wrong’uns XI: Pizza Hut scraps and Hong Kong police chases

Pep’s drug scandal and a twist in the Katie Price kidnap saga

Rat poison cocktails: an Enhanced Games special (bonus ep with Redhanded podcast)

Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice’s 5am bender

Mason Greenwood has finally gone too far

Roman Abramovich: poisoned by the KGB (part two)

Roman Abramovich: a murder every 3 days (part one)

Has Matt Le Tissier finally lost his mind?

F1’s naughty 90s: prison, princesses and pitlane punch-ups

Michael Jordan: f*** them kids | Part two

Michael Jordan: he still owes me that 75 cents | Part one

Ashley Cole: one call changed everything | Part two (with George Cooper)

Ashley Cole: girls allowed | Part one (with George Cooper)

OLD GOLD | Tiger Woods: Get in the hole!

Keys and Gray: it was just banter | Part two (with George Wilde)

Keys and Gray: smash it? | Part one (with George Wilde)