The Upshot

Joey Barton: This Charmless Man

Joey Barton is fucking mental. He punches children, quotes Nietzsche, and once sunk his teeth into his own club captain. And that’s just the tame stuff. From cigars in eyes to zoo animals on the loose, this is the story of the Premier League’s biggest wrong’un… 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.