The Upshot

Serie A stalkers and rugby-playing cannibals: a Halloween special

Rugby playing cannibals. Stalkers in Serie A. Ghostly visitations from the late George Best.As Halloween draws near, we’ve braved the haunted crypts of Upshot Towers, digging up a selection of macabre, gruesome and terrifying tales.Gather round, children, for the scariest stories in sport…For more tales of sporting scandal, join 100,000+ subscribers who get our free weekly email: <a href="https://www.upshot.email/subscribe?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=poddescription">https://www.upshot.email/subscribe?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=poddescription</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> 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 <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.