Winter Olympics: Hitler’s mistress and hot tub orgies
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Stripper jiggled, prince giggled: the phone hacking scandal (part one)
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
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2026-01-29 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostGraeme 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.
...
2026-01-27 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostGraeme 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 w...
2026-01-27 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe REAL reason Brooklyn fell out with the Beckhams
Plus:
- Liam Rosenior’s kinky DMs
- And all the fallout from a MENTAL Afcon final
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Liam Rosenior splits the word 'manager' in two:
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...
2026-01-20 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBenders 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:
... 2026-01-15 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostRuben 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 la...
2026-01-13 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostJerry 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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2026-01-08 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChange 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...
2026-01-06 16:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostLove 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 splurgi...
2026-01-02 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJerry 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 ...
2026-01-01 07:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostSmugglers, 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/st...
2025-12-30 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostInside Messi’s Indian catastrophe | The funniest stories in sport this week
Plus: Samuel Eto’o’s AFCON meltdown and a knife-wielding Sunderland striker.
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2025-12-18 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostFake 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.
<... 2025-12-16 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostFake 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 liv...
2025-12-16 07:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostUpshot 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’...
2025-12-11 07:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostIvan Toney’s nightclub headbutt | The funniest stories in sport this week
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<... 2025-12-11 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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 offspri...
2025-12-09 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTroy Parrott crashes down to earth | The funniest stories in sport this week
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2025-12-04 07:25:13 +0000 UTC View PostFirebombs, 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/wa...
2025-12-04 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostKevin 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 b...
2025-12-02 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post