- 304
- Episodes
- 147
- Transcribed
- 1,997
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 11M
- YouTube views
About The Upshot
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.
- Publisher
- The Upshot
- Category
- comedy · sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 4 Jul 2023
- Latest episode
- 3 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
147 of 304 episodes have a transcript.
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
China deleted Kylian Mbappe from the internet
2 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Elvis: they threw rotten fruit at him (part 1)
27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Ballon d’Or hero who shagged a spy
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China deleted Kylian Mbappe from the internet
Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Xi Jinping is on the blower right now as we speak. And it also appears that Mbappe is slowly being wiped from the Chinese internet. So if you look up the 2026 Ballon d'Or results on Mbappe, Dongchidi, I think it's pronounced, the biggest Chinese football platform. It lists the results. […]
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Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 10,565,469
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 76 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 1,921 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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