• From the Archives : The Monkey Testicle Doping Scandal - Sports Bizarre

  • Jan 24 2025
  • Length: 46 mins
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From the Archives : The Monkey Testicle Doping Scandal - Sports Bizarre

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  • In the 1930s, several English football clubs experimented with a new treatment sweeping the globe, ingesting, injecting or transplanting testicular tissue from monkeys into people.

    So widespread was the practice that the 1939 FA Cup final between Wolverhampton and Portsmouth became known as the ‘Monkey Gland Final’.

    Titus O'Reily and Mick Molloy, look back at arguably the strangest doping scandal of all time and the coaching career of Major Frank Buckley, who trialled the treatment at Wolverhampton.

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