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Adrian Mutu: all the gear but no idea
From high speed car chases to drinking a porn star's blood, meet the Bad Boy of Bucharest…
Serie A stalkers and rugby-playing cannibals: a Halloween special
As Halloween draws near, we’ve braved the haunted crypts of Upshot Towers, digging up a selection of macabre, gruesome and terrifying tales.
David Beckham: the stories Netflix won’t tell you
From knobbing his PA to the “stag do of the millennium”, meet the real David Beckham…
Sacre Bleu! French football’s strange and sordid decade
Welcome to an incredibly weird, sexually charged, and occasionally glorious decade for French football.
Mike Ashley: Sports Direct’s biggest mug
From puking in fireplaces to stripping at staff parties, Mike Ashley’s Newcastle reign was a booze-soaked disaster
Tiger Woods: Get in the hole!
Drug-fuelled car crashes. 121 mistresses. Shagging the next door neighbour's daughter. No one does scandals like Tiger Woods.
Neil Warnock: he’d fookin’ die for you lot
They don't make managers like Neil Warnock anymore. He gave team talks naked, cut his players' toe nails and picked the team based on his wife's dreams.
Wayne Rooney: the gran, the myth, the legend
From PVC grannies to spiking his teammates with Viagra, welcome to the wild world of Wazza…
Rugby’s biggest reprobates: drink, drugs and “disgusting forfeits”
From dealing drugs to defecating on dancefloors, rugby union is filled with absolute wrong uns.