The Offside Rule

This week, we’re reflecting on this defining week in football and thinking about what the future holds for the beautiful game. We’ll be deciding what job Jose should be doing next and also coming up with our own futuristic plan for football.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, we’re making our big return to the outside world with a shopping trip and a pub outing. We’ll be seeing what odd bits of memorabilia we can find and mixing up some footballer cocktails. And, as the season draws to a close, we’ll be talking about the teams set for a frantic end to the season.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices...

This week we're zipping up our superhero suits and assembling our Avengers to that will come and rescue the Premier League. We're also picking which footballing villains we need to take down and thinking about which players and clubs could do with a superhero rebrand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we get a bit over excited about the sunshine, think about the players who might be wishing for some time away as the clocks go forward and ask who might have some regrets from the latest World Cup qualifiers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you know your XG from your P90? Well this week, inspired by AC-12, we're talking football abbreviations. We're also putting ourselves in Southgate's shoes and picking who we think will stick around in the England squad and make it all the way to Qatar. Plus we fill out the footballer census. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p...

This week we're looking at the teams looking to make a move up and maybe down the table in the last few months of the Premier League season. We're discussing some big international homecomings and picking what we would take with us when we have to pack up the boxes after facing a managerial sacking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

This week we're raiding the cupboards for a special all about everyone's favourite sweet snack. Yes, it's all about chocolate this week. We're opening a bag of Revels and deciding which teams in the Champions are coffee, orange and toffee, and looking at some football marathons. Plus our very own confectionary XI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your...

This week we get in on all the talk about hosting to stage a few things of our own. We pick our perfect dinner party with all the people trending in football and we draw up our dream tournament. Plus a homeschooling politics lesson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's history week, so we're focusing on the history makers, past, present and future. We look ahead to who might be etching their names into the history books this season and take a trip down memory lane. Plus a home schooling history test and some reflections on dementia and football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...

This week we take a trip around the footballing darts board and give our take on the familiar sporting phrases: single; double; and treble. It's all about debuts, first goals, inaugural awards, cup wins and hat tricks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In honour of the constant drama on and off the pitch this season, we take a trip to Hollywood to decide which moments from the season deserve an Academy Award and what stories from the footballing world need to be told on the big screen. Plus, love is in the air as we pick our favourite footballing couples, no not Posh and Becks, but duos on the pitch that deserve some love. Learn more about your...

It's time for a look at the managerial kingdom. Who are the lions, tigers and bears of the football world? As the transfer window closes, we examine which clubs were the hares and tortoises. Plus, a very important homeschool lesson on football biology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With all this movement in football, in and out of the manager's office, up and down the table.. it seems like it’s time for a bit of musical chairs as we’ve also got the transfer window open so we’ll be looking at some of the biggest movers this January. We’ll be bringing you a music lesson later on - don’t worry there won’t be singing again! And we’ll be playing a game of audio musical chairs whi...

This week we're going all yee-ha and getting in on the inauguration celebrations with an American theme to the show! It all links in so find out why we want to be more Stanley Matthews, why Paul Scholes is a hider and who was the best player to play in America Wayne Rooney or Juan Pablo Angel? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po...

This week find out who said the balls were too light as an excuse for their team losing, which footballers have scored in every minute of a game, and who has made their way into the second chance saloon with success.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we look at the latest footballers to have chalked up their first Premier League minutes, we find Lionel Messi a new club, and we start our Homeschool Football series - how good is your football geography? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For one last time in 2020 it's Hayley McQueen, Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper here to guide us all through a look back on the year that was, the moments that stood out and that got us through lockdown.  We're here then to make some predictions to what 2021 could be and hope for some Euro glory! And then, of course, the only way to cap off 2020 is of course with a quiz, so pens and papers at the rea...

Join Kait, Hayley, and Lynsey this week for some Christmas themed fun (don't worry it's not all Christmas for any scrooges out there!) As this week we discuss who's got it toughest over the punishing winter schedule. We talk about Manchester United v Leeds - and find out Hayley's birth story! And we have trawled our way through the club websites to see the best and worst club gifts out there! Lear...

This week: which managers are looking over their shoulders worried about their jobs. Who would you deem worthy of being on a banknote. And how have Borussia Dortmund and Spongebob teamed up? Plus rainbow laces, naughty Auba, and struggling Southend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we're talking about who's better older or younger managers? We're discussing teams that have had some seriously good bouncebacks in their seasons. And we're talking about some awkward cases of mistaken identity. It's just another Offside Rule! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 their “The Best” awards nominations this week, so we're talking about the players who have excelled in lockdown and the best matches too. Topic 2 - Should you go back to your ex? - As St...

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 Topic 1 - Celebrate! - After Scotland made it through to the Euros, we're talking about the best celebrations in football (02.20) Topic 2 - Side hustles...

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 - if there was an Antiques Roadshow in 100 years time, who/what would be worth the most? (05.30) TOPIC 2 - Rare Finds - if you were going up to the table of experts, w...

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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 get in touch with us here (https://twitter.com/OffsideRulePod) ! Plus get your Athletic offer here (https://www.theathletic.com/offside)   Learn more about your...