It's our first ever surprise guest and it's two for the price of one as the Team GB's gold-medal-winning cycling team sprint reunite. Jason joins us from Cheshire fresh from the London Marathon while Jamie tunes in from the United States. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.in…

This week's guest has a new book out - Am I Having Fun Now? - as well as an upcoming tour. She joined us to talk Olympic fandom, sea swimming and upright bikes. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ and let us hear about your own sporting mis…

Andrew Cotter's voice has become synonymous with the big sporting occasions. The commentator came on the pod to talk golfing yips, vomiting on air and how his dogs, Olive and Mabel, became internet sensations. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadvent…

This star of stage and screen has delighted us in Horrible Histories, Ghosts and much more. He joins us to talk about his love of Spurs, being squared up to in a charity match and being the youngest of three sporting brothers growing up. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.ins…

Stand-up comedian, The News Quiz chair, podcaster and cricket statistician, this week's guest is a man of many talents. He's short circuited a cricket commentary box, been robbed in a sack race and realised a lifelong dream to be part of the Test Match Special team. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - an…

This week's guest may have been a latecomer to sport but has grown to love it from the magic of Kevin de Bruyne to Australian breakdancing at the Paris Olympics. He joined Chris and Matt on the podcast to relive how he discovered a new running technique, a novel way to avoid batting in cricket at school, and his one and only football goal. He's emb…

This week, we're joined by tennis fan and the man of many voices Josh Berry as he skips between the Murray brothers, John McEnroe, Roger Federer, Louis Theroux and many more. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ and let us hear about your ow…

A former competitive gymnast, Gabby Logan is long established as one of the leading sports broadcasters. She came on the podcast to talk about when live TV goes wrong, gymnastics misadventures and knowing your Mo Farahs from your Mo Salahs. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.…

This week's guest is the co-creator and co-star of The Ballad of Wallis Island, which is out in the UK in May. Tim talks us through his impressive service action in the film, his love of the Olympics and Test cricket, and relives his recent wonder goal. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram -…

Once a semi-professional footballer, John Bishop brings the mindset of an elite athlete to his stand-up comedy. He's still more nervous playing football in front of a crowd than performing as a comedian in packed arenas and once set off on a cycle ride from Liverpool to Sydney in Australia without a bike. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - …

This week's guest began life as a taekwondo athlete and argues those skills are directly transferable to stand-up comedy. He joined us to talk about the sport-comedy crossover, one-liners and hitting comedy gold in Edinburgh. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/s…

This week's guest was a keen footballer growing up until pushed into rugby and loved spending his summers watching cricket. He joined us to talk being the fastest man on the planet, riding his Brompton bike and The Crystal Maze as an Olympic sport. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - http…

This week's guest took a break from his current tour to talk everything from keeping in shape and Mrs Doubtfire to fake tan and moments when lifting weights have gone awry. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ and let us hear about your own …

What better guest to chat cycling with Chris than Dave Gorman, who once pedalled across the UK to a variety of stand-up gigs after an early medical mishap. He joined us to push Taskmaster as an Olympic event, and to talk supporting Liverpool and a new batch of Modern Life is Goodish. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Sp…

The three-time Grand Slam winner and double Olympic champion joins us fresh from the golf course to talk about his new sporting love, his dreadful start to his post-retirement skiing career, coaching Novak Djokovic and when drug tests go horribly wrong. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram -…

This week's guest began his career as a sports journalist live blogging and writing football transfer rumours for the Guardian before switching to comedy. He joined us to chat how London 2012 changed his life, getting hooked on sport watching Grandstand and the days he shone in the bottom PE group at school. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter…

This week's guest began life as a football journalist with a passion for Dundee United but then turned to TV creating the hilarious Bob Servant, starring Brian Cox, Guilt and The Gold. He joined us to talk scoring an overhead kick at Tannadice, tennis exploits against a junior Wimbledon star and winning three football caps at international level. F…

Peter Serafinowicz would sit out PE and hated football despite growing up in Liverpool. But then this week's guest became a convert of the beautiful game via his son and joins us to talk playing, watching and commentating on the sport as well as his idea for a merger of Merseyside's two football giants. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - ht…

What makes a person support a football club? For Newcastle fan Asim Chaudhry, it was zebras. This week's guest joins us to chat about his affinity with black-and-white stripes, his brief foray as a star rugby front-row forward in west London and cricket spinning advice from his dad. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Spo…

The multi-talented Brian Conley - actor, comedian, singer and TV presenter - comes on the podcast as the first guest of 2025 to chat about his sporting misadventures predominantly involving Linford Christie, Strictly Come Dancing and how Eastenders saved him from becoming a runner. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Spor…

Six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and sports journalist Matt Majendie return for season 3 of the podcast as week by week guests join them to talk about their sporting calamities. Already making an appearance this series are Jason Manford, Richard Herring and Mark Steel with many more lined up in the weeks ahead. Follow Sporting Misadventures …

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…

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 …