The Upshot

Crazy Gang: how to win cups and traumatise people

It was football’s wildest fairytale: in ten years ramshackle Wimbledon went from non-league to the top flight and FA Cup glory.But that’s only half the story. Vinnie Jones, John Fashanu and co were a bunch of absolute animals.They torched cars, held press conferences naked, and hospitalised each other with dressing room beatings.This is the story of the Crazy Gang…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.