Lads On The Sideline Podcast

This weeks episode could be our most serious and controversial yet. We took a deep dive into Man City’s 115 charges as news broke about them being found guilty. We read out the reasons behind the charges, what we think could happen, and what we would like to see happen. We then discussed the Ireland/Israel situation and our thoughts on it. We always try to keep politics out of our football chats,...

This week we took a look back at an eventful gameweek 5 of the premier league which saw Spurs lose again, Man City beat Sunderland in a thriller at the Etihad, Chelsea getting battered by Brentford, Coventry’s first points of the season, and Brighton with arguably the best performance of the season beating Arsenal 3-0. We took a look at our fantasy football league and our predictions table. We fin...

This week we took a look back at gameweek 4 in the premier league which saw some big wins for Forest and Ipswich, Hull continuing their great start, Spurs and Villa struggle again, Leeds with the win of the weekend and Man City winning at Old Trafford which included quite possibly the worst VAR call in history. With started with a bit of news before having yet another rant about Man United. An upd...

The first of our champions league reviews. A new bonus episode will be out after every Man United game as we take a quick look back at the result. We go through who played well and who didn’t, the positives and negatives of the performance, and our overall thoughts on the game. The first of which was Uniteds 4-0 win against Sabah. Comfortable in the end but listen to see what we think of the perfo...

This week we went on a bit of a rant about how United have a habit of ruining our weekend after they conceded in the last minute against Everton. We went through the rest of the premier league results from gameweek 3 as well as our predictions table and fantasy football. We started as always with our news, as well paid a tribute to Katie Taylor and asked the question, is she the greatest Irish spo...

This week we dedicated our news segment to the biggest news of the week which was the news of Messi retiring from Argentina. We took time to reflect on a brilliant career and ask ourselves did we take him for granted in his prime or did we actually appreciate his brilliance? A twist to our transfer segment as we took the top 5 clubs and decided what else each one needs to do before the transfer wi...

The Premier League has finally returned. This week we went through the results of the 10 premier league games giving a quick verdict on them all. Before this we started with our weekly news and transfer news which includes some dodgy deals from Man City. We spoke about Man Uniteds dreadful start away to Hull and the return of our weekly predictions league. We gave our weekly update on our Fantasy...

Milestone episode for us as we reach half a century. We started off with our usually news before delving into this past weeks transfer news. It was then time for our season preview. We gave our relegation predictions, winners, and top 6. We touched on teams we think might struggle and others who could surprise. All our predictions will be up on instagram for the season. We also mentioned our fanta...

This week we took turns giving our opinions on Marcus Rashfords return to Man United and whether he deserves a second chance. We started as per usual with our weekly news and for once there was very little. We then went through all the transfer news from the past week including a battle for Rodri between Real and Barcelona, and yet another week with no new signings for Man United. After our Rashfo...

On this weeks episode we started with news from around the footballing world which included the passing of footballing icon Franco Baresi. We then touched on a few transfers before the lads dissected Man Uniteds lack of transfer business this summer. We then answered some questions from the listeners.

We have returned. The lads are back from their holidays with plenty of football news and transfer news to catch up on over the past few weeks. From an underwhelming Man United transfer window, to two £117 million pound transfers we look back on the big transfers and rumours from the past 2 weeks. We gave our opinion on the World Cup and if we enjoyed or disliked it overall. A bit of news about our...

On this weeks episode we discussed all the news from the footballing world from a serious topic to the news of Ronaldo’s World Cup career being over. We delved into the transfer news from the last week with some rumours, done deals, and nonsense targets. It was then World Cup time as we spoke about the games from the round of 16 which saw the Iberian derby, some Messi magic, and a Viking takeover....

On this weeks episode, we paid respects to the victims in the recent earthquakes in Venezuela. We took a look at the recent transfer news with big names moving for big fees in Fernandez and Anderson. This led us to having a full on rant about Man Uniteds lack of transfer activity. We then took a look at the round of 32 in the World Cup with a few games already played. As always we finished with li...

This week we took a look back at the action from the past week in the World Cup. We’ve seen the big players starting to score and big teams begin to show their qualities as well as a few dark horses and bigger teams who have shown they may not be up to winning the tournament. We’ve seen started as always with our footballing news and transfer news. We also having a chat about the Messi v Ronaldo d...

This week we took a look back at the first few games of the World Cup. We discussed some of the big scores and moments and whether we feel like the World Cup has really got going. We had our footballing news which involved plenty of managerial news as well as all the biggest transfer news from the past week. We then had a look at Man Uniteds lack of transfers so far this summer and what we think m...

World Cup fever takes over the podcast this week. Before our World Cup chat we took a look at this weeks football and transfer news. We then looked ahead to the upcoming World Cup and gave our predictions for winners, top scorer, surprise package, biggest flop, and player of the tournament. We discussed the competition as a whole before answering questions from our listeners which were all World C...

This week we took a more relaxed approach. With no premier league results to look back on we delved into a few random football topics. We started with our news which included the managerial switch at Liverpool and whether Iraola will be a hit or miss. We took a look at some of the past weeks transfer rumours and deals in our new transfer segment. Our opinions on the champions league final and how...

This week we took a look at the news from the football world which included more managerial changes. We added our new Transfer News segment which we will be doing throughout the summer. We had a brief look back at the final games of the premier league season before reviewing our predictions from the beginning of the season to see how many we got correct. Then as always we finished with our listene...

This week we took a look at the managerial situation in the footballing world which saw Xabi Alonso appointed Chelsea manager, Mourinho return to Real Madrid, Carrick all but given the Man United job, and the news of Pep Guardiola leaving Man City. We also looked back on gameweek 37 which saw more VAR controversy. We recorded this before the Bournemouth v Man City game so a congratulations to Arse...

On this weeks episode we looked back on what was an incident packed weekend in the premier league. VAR was at the centre of Arsenals victory over West Ham, Doku is keeping City in the title race as they beat Brentford, Spurs could only draw with Leeds, and we spend very little time on the boring 0-0 draw between Sunderland and Man United. Plenty of footballing news from the footballing world from...

This week we took a look back at gameweek 35 in the premier league which saw Arsenal go clear in the title race as they swept Fulham aside whilst Man City dropped points away to Everton, big away wins for Forest & Spurs, and Man United beat old rivals Liverpool. We had a bit of a pop a Liverpool whilst also discussing Arsenal progressing to the Champions League final. We had some great listene...

This week we took a look back at gameweek 34 in the premier league which saw Chelsea slip down to 8th and Brighton move up to 6th, Liverpool & Man United gained 3 more points towards champions league qualification, and Arsenal went 3 points clear at the top. We started with our weekly news, an update on our predictions table, questions from our listeners, then finished with a little preview of...

This week we took a look back at gameweek 33 in the premier league which saw Man United win away to Chelsea, Liverpool win the Merseyside derby, and Man City pile the pressure on Arsenal with their 2-1 victory over them at the Etihad. We then took a look at the remaining fixtures for all teams involved in the title race, the race for European places, and the relegation battle and gave our predicte...

The premier league has finally returned and this week we took a look back at gameweek 32 and all the action. A weekend which included Man City closing the gap at the top as Arsenal lost at home to Bournemouth, Spurs’ hopes of survival took a knock, and Liverpool were able to take advantage of Chelsea, Villa, and Man United all slipping up. Our usual news section includes the champions league, Andy...

This week we took a look back on the FA cup quarter finals which saw Chelsea, Man City, Leeds, and Southampton book their tickets to Wembley. It saw Arsenal lose consecutive games for the first time this season which begs the question, are they bottling it again? We had our news from the football world, a look ahead to the first leg of the champions league and finished with great questions from ou...