The Offside Rule

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A unique football show. Three likely lasses - Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen - bring you The Offside Rule (We Get It) for the 2014/5 season.

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11.26.2020

Kait Borsay, Lynsey Hooper, and Hayley McQueen are here to help you with the transition from lockdown to stadium as parts of the UK are allowed to head back to football! This week: Topic 1 - Fifa may have released ...

The Offside Rule episodes:

11.26.2020 Should you ever go back to your ex? Kait Borsay, Lynsey Hooper, and Hayley McQueen are here to help you with the transition from lockdown to stadium as parts of the UK are allowed to head back to football! This week: Topic 1 - Fifa may have released ...
11.19.2020 Feel good football Join Kait Borsay, Lynsey Hooper, and Hayley McQueen for another ride around the football world. This week where's their happy place? Who have the best celebrations? And who's got the most lucrative side hustle? All will be revealed! RUNNING ORDER ...
11.12.2020 Football Antiques Roadshow It can be hard to know what to do in an international break, fortunately Lynsey Hooper dreams about the Offside Rule and specifically an Antiques Roadshow collaboration show, and so that's what we're doing! TOPIC 1 - Future Antiques - ...
11.05.2020 America's best footballing exports, British managers abroad and Canvey Island's day in the sun Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10.29.2020 Football’s most haunted RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - The best strike partnerships around (08m 40s) Topic 2 - The Golden Boys (16m 00s) Topic 3 - Football frights and nightmares (25m 30s) AOB (39m 00s) EXTRAS We've got a website (https://offsiderulepodcast.com/) ! And ...
10.22.2020 The Ultimate League of Football Power! RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - A new European Super League (06m 30s) Topic 2 - Inspiration for Virgil Van Dyke and more comeback tales (29m 00s) Topic 3 - Never mind the Premier League PPV - other ways to spend ...
10.15.2020 No more Partey puns, Arsene around, and a massive artistic director appointment RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - Partey Time: the Premier League (and Gareth Bale) is back! Topic 2 - Forest Green Rovers' new artistic director Topic 3 - Arsene around AOB EXTRAS We've got a website (https://offsiderulepodcast.com/) ! And get in ...
10.08.2020 The ultimate panic buy After the transfer window slammed shut earlier this week, we look at the panic buys and the left arounds at clubs. We also go full Patrice Evra and discuss the times when we've been feeling like we'd want to be ...
10.01.2020 Football forfeits, flip the rules, and the Final Countdown This week with the transfer deadline day approaching we look at what deals still could be done before the window slams shut. We're also thinking about how the football rules could be changed after the handball law came under scrutiny, ...
09.24.2020 The Great British Bake-ayoko Off With all the doom and gloom surrounding football and life this week's show is all about bring a bit of joy and remembering the brighter side of life. And there's a lot of cake mentions too! RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 ...
09.17.2020 Football meets baby On this week's show we discuss who's done the best business in the transfer window so far, who are solid parenting role models in the football sphere, and which are the worst football anthems and songs out there RUNNING ORDER ...
09.10.2020 A love letter to football This week we ask who's going to be the big achievers and underachievers, we give our take on All or Nothing, plus we put pen to paper and write a love letter to our football clubs RUNNING ORDER TOPIC 1 ...
07.30.2020 The Offside Rule Awards It's not just about the awards though, as we say goodbye to some familiar football faces and places, and we compete once again for the title of Who's In The Bag? champion. RUNNING ORDER TOPIC 1 - And the winner ...
07.23.2020 Who run the world? Coming up: Kait tells a bedtime story, Lynsey the Wolves fan offers sage advice to West Brom, and Hayley brings Chrissy Teigen to football. RUNNING ORDER TOPIC 1 - Registration - the team present the Premier League newbies with their ...
07.16.2020 Flying the (Canaries) nest Plus a fitting tribute to Jack Charlton, thoughts on Clive Tyldesley's video, and some FA Cup predictions. RUNNING ORDER TOPIC 1 - Flying the (Canaries) nest - Could any Canaries, Cherries, or Villains still find themselves kicking a Premier League ...
07.09.2020 Premier League predictions, Euro 2020, and the coolest manager in town Plus the team talk Euro Finals memories, managers who are way cooler than you, and the best football shirt to be released yet. RUNNING ORDER TOPIC 1 - The Run In - The team make predictions about how the Premier ...
07.02.2020 The bin of disinfectant RUNNING ORDER TOPIC 1 - Restart Recollections - The team point out what they've noticed about football since its return TOPIC 2 - Deal or No Deal - Alan Pardew's eight year deal ran out this week so what are ...
06.25.2020 Pep Guardiola's Speedos It was ten years ago that Frank Lampard scored that goal for England that never was. We won't dwell on that though as instead we reflect on that England side and where they are now. We also pick out our ...
06.18.2020 Football heroes This week it's all about crowd noise, Marcus Rashford, and an insight into our local footballing insights RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - Restart Reax - what did the team make of the way the restart got underway Topic 2 - ...
06.11.2020 Number twos and cat poos The team discuss best assistant managers, getting the lowdown on the latest transfer rumours, and giving Hayley some advice for when she gets back to Sky Sports News. RUNNING ORDER TOPIC 1 - Transfer talk - Whilst this season might ...
06.04.2020 Why Wednesday? Hayley, Kait and Lynsey discuss the teams that are most set for the Premier League's restart, and the teams that will be looking a bit more sheepishly at their first matches. Plus they blow the dust off the history books ...
05.28.2020 Frankenstein's footballer, Champions-less League, and WSL wind down Join Hayley, Lynsey and Kait and they stitch together the best Premier League footballer, or possibly the worst, they discuss the best players to have never won the Champions League, and try to workout the best course of action for ...
05.21.2020 Football: From sex dolls to sticky balls It might sound like an NSFW show but we promise it's not! This week we're talking relegation battles, poor interviewees, and to celebrate the hot weather, we're making a sunshine XI with some questionable inclusions! Topics Topic 1 - Summer ...
05.14.2020 All aboard the Bundesliga Bandwagon Join Hayley, Lynsey, and Kait as they discuss the biggest gaps between title wins on the weekend that surely would have seen Liverpool lifting their first Premier League title. Plus they're choosing their Bundesliga teams ahead of the German league's ...
05.07.2020 VE Day Celebration With it being VE Day we fly the Union Jack high in pod land to celebrate footballers who fought on the front lines, our memorable victories in Europe, and mix up the sport a little Topic 1 - VE Day ...
04.30.2020 Myth busters, Neville naysayers, and French finishers Not only have you got Hayley, Lynsey, and Kait this week, but we've invited along special guest Anita Asante to discuss the tenure of Phil Neville at the helm of the Lionesses! It's not all England though as we discover ...
04.23.2020 Germany's baby boom, Mary Queen of Scots' football, and Paulo Wanchope RUNNING ORDER TOPIC 1 - 2020 Vision - We're looking at celebrations that are happening or were due to happen in 2020 across the footballing landscape. (09.00) TOPIC 2 - Celebrating History - In the week Crystal Palace claimed to ...
04.16.2020 Batman v Valencia RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - Robins' Red Crest - Many of our favourite clubs have animals either as their nicknames or in their logos and we tell you some of their stories (06.40) Topic 2 - Golden Retrievers - Stories ...
04.09.2020 The Countdown Show RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - Countdown - As FIFA continue to grapple with what to do about the season and the transfer window, we’re looking at some of the players who will be looking for short term contracts or maybe ...
04.02.2020 The one with... Hayley McQueen's return! Part two! RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - The one with... the future stars - With Hayley's daughter a potential footballer in the making, we ask which footballing parent has a serious chance of their child making it in football? (11.30) Topic 2 ...
03.27.2020 The one with... Hayley McQueen's return! RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - The one with... the flashbacks - it's been a while since the trio were together so we reflect on some of the biggest news stories in that time (08.00) Topic 2 - The one with... ...
03.20.2020 Podcast-in-isolation RUNNING ORDER TOPIC 1 - Pass Go and do not collect £200 - As football, and society, continues to go through its greatest upheaval since WWII, we take a look at some of the other times that football has undergone ...
03.12.2020 Front runners, stewards' inquiry, and punters' picks RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - Front runners - So with Liverpool in position to win the title as early as Monday we've decided it’s about time we take a trip down memory lane to look at past seasons and leagues ...
03.06.2020 International Women's Day celebration RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - The Youth of Today - It’s been a good week and season for youngsters playing football. In the FA Cup so far we’ve seen outstanding performances from Billy Gilmour, Eddie Nketiah, and Liverpool’s youngsters early ...
02.28.2020 Emile Heskey Exclusive Emile Heskey played 62 times for England, made 150 appearances for Liverpool, and over 150 for Leicester; winning 4 League Cups, an FA Cup, a UEFA Cup in the process. Heskey has represented his country at the 2002 and 2010 ...
02.21.2020 Troy Parrott, a whistling parrot, and a postie RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - European Euphoria - Our review of the first round of 16 ties, who impressed, why isn't Parrott playing, and Liverpool's loss (04.50) Topic 2 - Big bans - With Manchester City banned from participating in ...
02.14.2020 And the Oscar goes to... RUNNING ORDER Topic 1 - Under pressure - January has been and gone, and now there are no excuses for managers to be struggling. There are a few now who are really under pressure, but who’s genuinely in trouble and ...
02.07.2020 There's no football culture without vinegar Kait Borsay, Lynsey Hooper, and Robyn Cowen are here to talk you through the latest January transfer window, build their dream stadiums - jet packs are involved, and welcome to the show Emily Elias from Desert Island Dips to tell ...
01.31.2020 Winter break, parents, and a Brexit XI Kait Borsay, Emma Saunders, and Harriet Drudge are all in to debate the upcoming winter break, the weird things parents say, and to create a Brexit XI - well someone had to... Topic 1 - Winter break is coming - ...
01.24.2020 An Ibiza Special Kait Borsay is joined this week for a club classic podcast by Ali Bender and Frida Fagerlund to discuss the Big 6, Barcelona's trip to Ibiza, and come up with our own club manifestos. Topic 1 - Two Can Play ...
01.17.2020 AC Milan's old people's home Topic 1 - Transfers - With Harry and Meghan leaving, we discuss players who've come into the Premier League this month and those who are leaving (04.00) Topic 2 - Transferred - With Mina in we deep dive into some ...
01.10.2020 The Name of the Game It's a new year, and the Offside Rule is back with more footballing insight and a bit of nonsense too. Faye Carruthers joins the team to discuss hats, superstition, and phone throwing, it's all football related we promise! Here's the ...
01.03.2020 Willy Caballero Exclusive Goalkeeper Willy Caballero has had a career which has traversed Argentina, to Spain, and most memorably in Manchester City winning honours across the board In this podcast he discusses everything from where he started with Boca Juniors, to his family ...
12.27.2019 Jill Scott Exclusive Jill Scott discusses getting over the 2019 World Cup disappointment, her love for her family, and her post playing future Over the course of her career Scott has acquired so far: 146 caps for her country, a World Cup Bronze ...
12.20.2019 A decade of delight and decline It's our last roundtable of the decade and so we're looking back on the last 10 years and our memories from football, but we also look ahead to the future and fundamental festive fixtures that are coming up Here's what ...
12.13.2019 Football's hard men, Club World Cup, and an ostrich With Emma Saunders back in it's only right that we get some Watford chat in and especially so with the return of Nigel Pearson as their manager. Here's what we're talking about: Topic 1 - Come and have a go ...
12.06.2019 Sacking season, power couples, and football tat It's officially December so now it's time to get festive and find your loved ones some Christmas presents, and this week we have the answers! Plus we're talking shortest managerial reigns, and football's power couples Topic 1 - Sacking Season ...
11.29.2019 John Barnes Exclusive John Barnes joins Kait Borsay to discuss how Graham Taylor guided him to Liverpool, whether Jurgen Klopp is better than Brendan Rodgers, and his experiences of racism in football. In the course of his career John Barnes played 79 times ...
11.22.2019 Poch gets scotched and it’s oh hey Jose! Joining Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper this week it's Faye Carruthers to discuss the BIG story of the week. Poch is out, and Jose is in! This week we work out what went on, what's going to happen now, and ...
11.18.2019 North London derby and Women's Football Weekend special This special show comes live from Spurs' stadium as Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper speak with the great and the good from women's football - and none more so than SheKicks editor Jen O'Neill! We're joined by those taking part ...

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The Offside Rule episodes:

Should you ever go back to your ex?

Feel good football

Football Antiques Roadshow

America's best footballing exports, British managers abroad and Canvey Island's day in the sun

Football’s most haunted

The Ultimate League of Football Power!

No more Partey puns, Arsene around, and a massive artistic director appointment

The ultimate panic buy

Football forfeits, flip the rules, and the Final Countdown

The Great British Bake-ayoko Off

Football meets baby

A love letter to football

The Offside Rule Awards

Who run the world?

Flying the (Canaries) nest

Premier League predictions, Euro 2020, and the coolest manager in town

The bin of disinfectant

Pep Guardiola's Speedos

Football heroes

Number twos and cat poos

Why Wednesday?

Frankenstein's footballer, Champions-less League, and WSL wind down

Football: From sex dolls to sticky balls

All aboard the Bundesliga Bandwagon

VE Day Celebration

Myth busters, Neville naysayers, and French finishers

Germany's baby boom, Mary Queen of Scots' football, and Paulo Wanchope

Batman v Valencia

The Countdown Show

The one with... Hayley McQueen's return! Part two!

The one with... Hayley McQueen's return!

Podcast-in-isolation

Front runners, stewards' inquiry, and punters' picks

International Women's Day celebration

Emile Heskey Exclusive

Troy Parrott, a whistling parrot, and a postie

And the Oscar goes to...

There's no football culture without vinegar

Winter break, parents, and a Brexit XI

An Ibiza Special

AC Milan's old people's home

The Name of the Game

Willy Caballero Exclusive

Jill Scott Exclusive

A decade of delight and decline

Football's hard men, Club World Cup, and an ostrich

Sacking season, power couples, and football tat

John Barnes Exclusive

Poch gets scotched and it’s oh hey Jose!

North London derby and Women's Football Weekend special

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