Insane Football Stories That Will Leave You Shocked!

Hello, and welcome. We've got a guest with me today. Yes, and it's not Harry. Who is it? The cats are with me. The cats! Yeah. Wow. When did you get these cats? Like a month ago. Is it one cat or is it two cats? Two cats. They're twin sisters. Not twin sisters. They're sisters in the same litter. Oh, and what are their names? May you divulge. Ebi, like the shrimp. Nice. And Tofu. Ebi and Tofu, how sweet. Yeah, they're now allowed to free roam the house. So they're just exploring. Are they house cats or are they? They will be outdoor cats one day. I don't want them to be. Wow. It terrifies me. Like, you set your pet. I've never had a cat before. So you set your pet to go and leave the house. Are you going to do that thing where you put like an air tag on their collar so you can see where they are? I would like to. Yeah, you should do that. I always see on TikTok, people will be like, oh, yeah. And you're going to find your cat out in the park. Yeah, you meet them in a field and they're like, what the fuck? Anyway. Yeah, so we're reacting to some insane football stories that will leave you shocked today. Come on. We have found some of the most insane stories from the world of football that will be sure to leave you shocked. Today? What? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. What's this? What is this? Oh, no. Oh, no. Can I say, by the way, as a button hater, that is the most disgusting top. Hang on. So why is there two buttons? That's the thing I don't like about buttons on a football top. They're pointless. Like, there's no need for there to be a button on a football top. That is purely fucking cosmetic. It's not even cosmetic. It looks shit. That's awful. That is the worst thing I've seen in a long time, you know. That is horrible. Following his son's sacking from Leicester, Nigel, too, was dismissed from his role, as according to the BBC, You ain't the OG. tensions had subsequently arisen between the manager and the board. Leicester would go on to appoint Claudio Ranieri. And what a choice that was. He would oversee one of the greatest sporting achievements in English football history. In any history. And he led side to the Premier League title. That is actually one of the maddest things ever, like, so crazy. The sixth season. In 2010, Raoul Moat's shooting spree shocked the nation. But in the midst of the standoff between the shooter and the police, none other than Paul Gascoigne himself showed up on the scene, bringing with him a number of items. Did he know it? Did Paul Gascoigne know Raoul Moat? Or was it all like... I don't actually know. Let us know in the comments. Did Paul Gascoigne actually know Raoul Moat? Or was it just like a... Was he just going mad? A number of items that he was planning to give to the gunman. Speaking to the Mirror in 2020, Paul said, I just remember that I was in a taxi. I thought that I could take Raoul Moat fishing because he was near a river. I told the taxi driver, head for the airport. And then when we got to Newcastle airport, I said, head for Rothbury. The taxi driver said, you are not going where I think you are going. And I said, yes, I am. Gazza went on to reveal that at the time, he was in one of his most vulnerable states as he battled with addiction. Fair enough. Now for one of the most bizarre stories out of all the ones we will be discussing today. Back in 2022, French football star, Paul Pogba, found himself at the centre of a blackmail saga. Orchestrated by none other than his very own brother. Paul was taken to an apartment in the suburbs of Paris, where he was threatened by hooded men with assault rifles. Imagine your own brother. That's crazy. There are a lot of snaky families out there. Maybe he's like, oh, you've got all this money, Paul. Where's a bit of my cut? You ain't playing the football. You ain't doing like... Have you ever given your brother or sister money? Yeah, but he's helped out with the videos. Maybe the brother should have helped out with the training more. Maybe. I don't know, man. It's crazy. His attackers are said to have demanded 13 million euros in order to keep his secrets. 13 million? Pogba claims to have recognised his brother amongst the gang. One that he eventually paid 100,000 euros to after being threatened with a public release of accusations that would be more damaging to his image. One of the accusations, which was eventually leaked by Matthias, claimed that Pogba sought the assistance of a witch doctor to put a curse on his French colleague Kylian Mbappe to neutralise his abilities during PSG's Champions League title in Manchester United. A game United went on to win 3-1 in what was a miraculous comeback. Next up, we have the infamous story of Ali Dia and one of the greatest cons in Premier League history. OK, what did he do? A number of clubs across England received mystery phone calls from a man claiming to be none other than George Weir himself offering the services of his cousin Ali Dia. I've seen this about this as well. Harry Redknapp, who was manager of West Ham at the time, knew straight away it was a wind-up. Things weren't going to plan for Graeme Souness at Southampton, so when he received a call from George Weir introducing his cousin, he thought his luck had changed. Dia's luck also began to take a turn. Despite scepticism around who this mystery man was, Dia impressed at his trials, and Southampton decided to take a punt and offer him a one-off trial. Dia's moment came after 32 minutes, when club legend Matt Letizia came off injured. Souness subbed on George Weir's cousin to change their fate, but it was immediately obvious that Dia was not who he claimed to be. We have had this lad train with us for a week and he's shown in training that he's lively and sharp. He didn't do well today, he didn't get a kick in the ball, but we won't judge him just on 90 or 60 minutes he played. We'll have a look, we've got three weeks to have a look. 31-year-old Senegalese played 53 minutes in the top flight and achieved a remarkable 100% shot accuracy before being released two weeks into his trial after the hoax was unravelled. That's kind of jokes, isn't it? Have you ever heard of the Ugandan Independence Tournament of 1962? No. Probably not. It was an association football event which took place to celebrate Uganda's independence, where three teams played each other for the right to face Uganda in the final. Both Kenya and Ghana took part in the tournament, but I bet you couldn't guess who the third team were. Oh, let's have a guess. So Kenya and Ghana took part. We can't guess who the third team is, so it's got to be very obscure. Yeah, and they want to play Uganda. Who could it be? Let's go with... Rwanda. No, it's going to be something not even in... Denmark. Yeah, like some fucking random one. Let's go... Scotland. I like that answer. If you said an all-star representative team from the English Isthmian League, then you would be absolutely correct. Oh, we didn't say that. For reference, the Isthmian League now represents the 7th and 8th tier of English football. Oh, wait, no, we're close enough. Somewhat. It's English. It was an English team. So far down. Oh, my God. The Isthmian League all-star side came out with two draws against Kenya and Ghana, with the scores being 3-3 and 2-2, respectively. It was 1952. It was Ghana who went on to face Uganda where they won 4-1. Uganda's got such a cool flag. That's such a cool flag. A strange conspiracy theory has been circling around social media for a number of years involving Aaron Ramsey. Fans started noticing... Oh, yeah, people die as soon as he scores. Oh, yeah. ...his goals and famous people's deaths. Here are just a few examples. Osama bin Laden died the day after Ramsey scored against Manchester United. Steve Jobs died three days after he scored against Tottenham Hotspur. Whitney Houston died the day after he scored against Sunderland. Paul Walker died the same day he scored against Cardiff. That is kind of mad, you know. Robin Williams died the day People die every day, though. Yeah, but not these, like... These are big deaths. Yeah, big deaths, yeah. Everyone's going to be like, oh, my God, this person died. He was just scoring goals all the time. That's the way it was. You can say that about Harlan. I bet it's a stat of how many people died after Harlan scored. Ramsey... He scored most weeks. Yeah, but perhaps Ramsey probably needs goals. How many has he got? He's scored five. He's got to score 40 primary goals. And the list goes on and on and on. Aaron Ramsey truly has a deadly right-footed shot. A headline that states Nicholas Bentner dropped his pants and rubbed himself on my taxi is bound to make you want to read that story. There's a lot of stories about him, didn't he, Bentner? A cab driver threatened to call the police after Lord Bentner and two of his friends got aggressive. Lord Bentner, yeah. Bentner was accused of stealing some of his belongings and damaging his car's radio. Bentner replied saying that if he was not so famous he would have smacked the driver before calling him a little fat pig. Jesus. He then unbuttoned his trousers and rubbed himself up against the side window ripping the cab with his belt stating he wanted to fuck the driver and to make matters worse this was all happening whilst his club at the time, Arsenal had just been knocked out of the Champions League by Bayern Munich. We've all got embarrassing night out stories but that one is really quite something. Rubbed himself up on the taxi saying he wants to fuck him. That was a good ending story. I can have you do something like that, Harry, to be fair. You learn something new every day. Well, it's been an absolute pleasure, mate, but I'm going to have to bid you farewell. Because you have to leave soon. Well, I do have to leave. So do you. Well, actually, because it's funny we've looked at football stories we're going to do something football related, aren't we? Yes. Anyway, right, we'll see you later. Bye-bye.