Running, rowing with Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent and being flattened by a fast bowler, this week's guest, Richard Herring, has seen it all in the sporting sphere. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own spo…

Mark Steel is a sports fanatic be that playing table tennis as a teenager or using sporting analogies in his recent battle with cancer. He joins the pod as this week's guest ahead of his latest tour, the Leopard in my house. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sp…

This week, we're joined by an actual sportsman in nine-time F1 race winner Mark Webber, also a champion at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He chats brushes with death in high-speed crashes, cycling against his idol on one of the Tour de France's toughest climbs and being obliterated by a MotoGP racer. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twi…

Season 3 kicks off with the wonderful Jason Manford who joins Chris and Matt to cover a rich tapestry of sport. There's padel tennis, a love of Manchester City, coaching his daughter's football team and getting injured a 10-pin bowling and much, much more. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagra…

Joining us on the podcast on the eve of his show at the Edinburgh Fringe is none other than Milton Jones. He talks running after a rabbi, keeping up with Mo Farah on the football field and tweeting Chris after his London 2012 golds. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagra…

An hour didn't quite seem enough time to cram in all this week's guest's sporting misadventures. From barefoot running to BMX jumping rivers gone wrong, and from basketball knock-outs to a shortlived taekwondo career, Jason Byrne appears to have experienced every sporting calamity available. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitte…

Grayson Perry is a world-renowned artist and winner of myriad awards from the Turner Prize to a Bafta but has long had a passion for sport alongside his art. He joined us to talk drag racing, Isle of Man TT, his love of skateboarding and cycling. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https:…

He may have once won a cricket trophy but this week's guest is better known for his sporting calamities than successes from cricketing failings to his sporting high quickly turning into a sporting low and resulting in a broken finger. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instag…

Fin Taylor went viral with his diatribe on the NFL. He joins us this week to chat American football, his love of cricket - from bin to Test - and outsprinting the other fat kid at school in a cross-country race. And you can also catch him on tour - go to https://fintaylor.com/ for tickets. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.…

The comedian, actor and presenter joins us for this week's hour ahead to chat about his quest to clinch a world record at the London Marathon in the Masked Singer-winning fish costume, running with a dodgy stomach with Mexicans and much, more more. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - http…

Squash player, snooker podcast host, and football programme collector, this week's guest might just be our most sports-obsessed yet. He joined us for this recording just before flying out to San Marino to see them lose 3-1 to St Kitts and he chats everything from rugby tries to woeful displays in the school pool. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Tw…

Adam Peaty is a three-time Olympic swimming champion and will again be bidding for gold at the Paris Games this summer. He joined the podcast to talk about his golden quest, split trunks and interviews gone horribly wrong. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/spor…

This week's guest is Andy Hamilton, the creator of such hit shows as Drop the Dead Donkey and Outnumbered, a regular comedy show panellist and even the voice of elephant dentist on Peppa Pig. He's also got a book out, Blue was the Colour, charting a lifetime of ups and downs following Chelsea FC. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://t…

Joining us this week is the star of stage and screen Katherine Parkinson, with roles in the IT Crowd, Doc Martin, Here We Go and much much more. She talks water polo confusion, football frustration and egg-and-spoon races. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/spor…

We've once again dipped outside the comedy world for this week's guest, Geraint Thomas. Tour de France winner, Olympic champion and podcast host in his own route, he chats winning the Tour de France, naked saunas and much more. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com…

This week's guest started off as a stand-up comedian and somehow ended up finding a football club for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Wrexham FC executive director Humphrey Ker joins us to talk about the backstory to Welcome to Wrexham, his other footballing love of Liverpool and his sporting exploits as a 6ft 7in schoolboy. Follow Sporting Misad…

Jack Whitehall likes to play down his sporting successes but he's a hurdler, barefooted kicker of a rugby ball and goal assist king to former England striker Jermain Defoe. Plus, he's this week's guest with a seemingly endless list of sporting misadventures. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instag…

Stand-up comedian Ross Noble joins us this week to talk about his love of motorbikes and two-wheel sporting misadventures involving being attacked by dogs in Transylvania and being chased by a man in a bear suit. Ross has just embarked on a fresh UK Tour, Jibber Jabber Jamboree and tickets are available from https://www.rossnoble.com/#/shows. Follo…

This week Vittorio Angelone joins us in the hot seat to talk Italian football, rugby injuries and stand-up gone wrong. Vittorio's excellent new tour Who Do You Think You Are? I Am got under way this week. To get tickets, go to https://vittorioangelone.com/tour. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Ins…

For the first time, we're joined by a non-comedian as the England fast bowler (and funny man) took time to talk ahead of England's tour of India. Ahead of the first Test on Thursday, the World Cup winner talked about that super over, sledging and his bizarre reason for not supporting his local Newcastle but a lowly London side. Follow Sporting Misa…

We're back from a break for season 2 and joining us first of all is the superb Rob Auton ahead of his UK tour. He talks everything from sports you shouldn't play in a conservatory to poetry imagining a stationery store worker is treated like a Premier League footballer. Plus, Chris receives a letter from one of his comedy icons. Rob's brilliant tou…

Six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and sports journalist Matt Majendie are gearing up for season 2 of the podcast with a number of great comedic guests to talk about their sporting calamities and triumphs. Episode one of the new series goes live on January 17. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and…

Actor, comedian and cricket lover Miles Jupp talks concussions on the field of play, pretending to be a sports journalist on an England tour of India and a chance encounter with one of the Scottish-singing brothers gone wrong. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/…

Sport helped kickstart Kieran Hodgson's career with an unlikely stand-up show about the disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. So, this week's guest talks about his love of cycling, fallen idols, and a pre-rowing competition speech from the Hollywood actor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

It's three for the price of one as Irish comedy sketch trio Foil, Arms and Hog pop along ahead of their UK tour and relive how they combined together to pull off their own collective sporting misadventure. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures…

The brains behind Taskmaster is the perfect creator of new sports and comes up with one on the podcast. He talks us through his song 'Chris Hoy loves a saveloy', equine cricket, the 4x400m relay with a twist and much more more. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com…

This week we go Down Under where we're joined by Aussie brothers Miles and Archie Shepherd, whose lip syncing of sports commentary has taken off massively globally. They talk about their desire to become sports stars and how a love for performing all began in school assembly. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMi…

To mark our 20th episode, Chris and Matt turn the questions on themselves to find out their own sporting misadventures from naked laps of the velodrome to arse splinters. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr…

Milo McCabe is a stand-up comedian and presenter whose character Troy Hawke has become a viral hit. Between them, they have been knocked out in the ring, and twice left Manchester City and England midfielder Jack Grealish in a state of confusion. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https:…

Ahead of his new TV show, Grow Another Foot, the stand-up comedian and Last Leg presenter joins us to talk all things Paralympics, Ashes cricket and his ever-growing list of rugby league injuries. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted …

Fresh from a cycle ride across Europe, Germany's comedy ambassador to the UK hops out of the saddle to discuss his epic biking and having royal approval from the new king before turning quizmaster on Chris. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventure…

Glenn Moore takes time out from the breakfast show he co-hosts on Absolute Radio and preparing for another Edinburgh Fringe festival run to entertain us with embarrassing himself with Jessica Ennis-Hill, a goal-line miss that still haunts him and the sporting creation Dom Ball. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Sporting…

Simon has made a name for himself pranking the likes of Sepp Blatter, Theresa May and the Manchester City football team. Now he's performing a new show, Xavier, as himself at the Edinburgh Fringe. He joined us to talk about the difference between the Swiss and Liverpool prison systems and being sworn at by Boris Johnson. Follow Sporting Misadventur…

Just before heading to the Edinburgh Festival with her new show, stand-up comedian and lifelong Crystal Palace fan Chloe Petts comes on to talk split trousers, suddenly turning her back on goalkeeping and her sporting invention 'Hit This'. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.i…

The star of Ghosts and Stath Lets Flats joins us on the pod to talk about egg throwing, disappointing his cricket-mad dad and how he came up with the term Platty Joobs for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Ho…

Spurs fan Rhys James comes on the pod this week to discuss the agonies of following Harry Kane's future, how a holiday strop saw him seek tennis revenge over his family and the time his Winter Olympic aspirations ended with a split chin in A&E. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://…

This week's guest swapped a career as a pharmacist to become a stand-up comedian, and joins the pod to talk dashed football dreams, basketball sendings off and going head-to-head with our host for a dartboard in Richard Osman's House of Games. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://w…

This week's guest is a Leeds football fan, who went from her wedding day to playing Soccer Aid in the space of 24 hours. She talks everything from maiming pigeons to her own sporting creation. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on A…

With more than 50 caps for England's partially sighted football team, we've got genuine sporting talent this week to talk international call-ups, hosting the world's strongest child contest and Rocky dreams in Mexico. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingm…

Young Kenny from Phoenix Nights, aka Justin Moorhouse, has two Olympic Games appearances to his name and is a crack shot. He joins us on the podcast this week to talk sumo, kabaddi and cricket sandwiches. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/…

Football's loss has been acting and comedy's gain after this week's guest forewent a budding sporting career. The King Gary star talks rounders red cards, lasting 12 minutes in her comeback football match and a live TV wonder strike. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagr…

Our latest guest, Katia from Stath Lets Flats and Cathy from The Other One was born into a sporting household. She joins us to discuss her love of football fights and how her sporting high quickly turned into a costly low. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/spor…

The star of Fresh Meat, Gary: Tank Commander and Guilt joins us to reminisce about his sporting high turned agonising low, camp tennis with Tim Henman and a private Prince gig. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.…

The stand-up comedian, actor and writer Joe Wilkinson admits he would rather have been a sportsman than a comedian as he talks trying to topple Three Lions from the charts and critiques synchronised swimming. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventu…

This week's guest has brushed shoulders with Lionel Messi and sung the national anthem for the King at Brentford FC but, as a goalkeeper, has been derailed by dreams of chicken lasagne. He talks singing, Soccer AM and gambling addiction. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.ins…

Irish comedian David O'Doherty is a sports star in his own right. He joins Sporting Misadventures to chat outsmarting Irish rugby players, angling triumphs, drunken triple jumping and his obsession with collecting vintage Tour de France-winning bikes. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - h…

Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy and journalist Matt Majendie invite a comedian on each week to talk about his or her sporting misadventure. The opening guest is David Earl, creator of the excellent Brian and Charles and star of After Life and Derek. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram -…

Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy and journalist Matt Majendie invite a comedian on each week to talk about his or her sporting misadventures from the sublime - a winning goal perhaps - to the ridiculous, a school sports day gone wrong which still haunts to this day. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn -…