The Offside Rule

It's the usual crowd this week on The Offside Rule (We Get It!) as Hayley McQueen rejoins Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper to bring you the penultimate episode of the season. Champions Chelsea might not be ending their season in style as they suffered a surprise 3-0 defeat at the hands of West Brom, and it got us thinking about other shockers of the season, including awful facial hair, a new found fo...

Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay are joined by podcast regular Mina Rzouki to present episode 36 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). Poor injury-prone Daniel Sturridge has had a hip operation recently and won't return to training with Liverpool until September, having only made 18 appearances this season. It got us thinking, who's had a career that's been marred by injuries and has even been prevented...

Hayley McQueen, Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay bring you episode 35 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!) despite experiencing techical difficulties, as one of the ladies forgot the microphone - but the good old iPhone came to our rescue!! It's all over in the Football Leagues and the title has been wrapped up in the Premier League, so we take a look back at title winners and relegated sides and give yo...

Hayley McQueen, Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay are back for episode 34 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). Hayley mingled with the stars at the PFA awards and gives us all the gossip, but we play manager and sub two players into the Team of the Year; who will stay and who will go? Aston Villa's Jack Grealish is stealing the headlines at the moment with standout performances, and there's talk of which...

Episode 33 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!) is brought to you this week by Kait Borsay, Lynsey Hooper and Hayley McQueen to discuss the topical and the trifling from the footballing world. Sepp Blatter was compared to Jesus Christ this week (no, we don't understand either!) and it got us thinking: which modern day football personalities could we compare to historical greats? Jurgen Klopp announced...

Hayley McQueen, Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay bring you episode 32 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!) from sunny Loftus Road to talk all things football. The title race is heating up but for many Chelsea are destined for the trophy, but have they been winning pretty? We look back on past Premier League-winning teams who've won in style. It's been announced that Gabon are the new hosts of the 2017 Af...

The trio of Hayley McQueen, Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper are reunited to talk the weird and wonderful in football in The Offside Rule (We Get It!), episode 31. The country is still talking about Charlie Adam's 60-metre screamer against Chelsea this weekend; many have said it couldn't have been deliberate, but it turns out he's practiced it in training for years! We talk other footballers who've r...

The delightful duo of Lynsey Hooper and Hayley McQueen hit the airwaves to bring you episode 30 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!) - we may be a woman down but that doesn't stop the fun! Harry Kane is the player on everyone's lips at the moment after scoring on his England debut, but we know that a dream debut doesn't always lead to a glittering career; who can Harry look to for advice going forward...

Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen are joined by the Guardian's football writer Amy Lawrence for episode 29 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). We've got exclusive interviews from stars of the FAWSL, which kicked off last week, including Alex Scott and Tasha Harding, as we get their thoughts on the season ahead. We're still reeling from Steven Gerrard's shock 38 second appearance against fierce rivals M...

The tricky trio of Hayley McQueen, Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay are reunited to bring you episode 28 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). We're less than two months away from the end of the season, so it's about time last summer signings settled in - but who's not lived up to expectations? How do you solve a problem like Di Maria? Tune in to find out more! After Seb Larsson's late return to the pitc...

This week The Offside Rule (We Get It!) pays tribute to International Women's Day with a special podcast featuring sports journalist Carrie Brown, the Guardian's Anna Kessel and Francesca Brown, founder of football coaching initiative Goals4Girls. Our special guests join Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay to hot seat their way through predicted Premier League finishers and best new signings and predict...

The Offside Rule (We Get It!) is brought to you from Stamford Bridge this week, with Chelsea TV's Gigi Salmon hosting alongside Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay. Following Chelsea's win over Tottenham Hotspur in the League Cup, we thought it was an apt setting and our first topic followed suit: Jose's best moments. Love him or hate him, you can't deny Jose Mourinho is one of a kind. From eggs to figh...

It's double trouble this week as Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay bring you The Offside Rule (We Get It!): episode 25. Following the British success stories in the Oscars this week, we dish out some more awards including Best Comedy and Best Romance...which managers puckered up pre-match? Sam Allardyce has recently said his side are "too honest" following Spurs' recent last-gasp equaliser, a penalty...

Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen are back for more football-related fun in episode 24 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). We catch up with England Women's manager Mark Sampson and forward Fran Kirby ahead of the upcoming Women's World Cup this summer. As it's awards season, we dish out a few Oscars of our own; from Leading Male to Best Animation (yes, really!), we've got it covered. As...

Hayley McQueen, Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay are joined by Arsenal legend Martin Keown to bring you a grassroots special from The Offside Rule (We Get It!). There's plenty to inspire in this special edition, find out which well-known footballers were plucked from grassroots obscurity and transported to the Premier League. From a club signing their own barman to one of the country's leading scorer...

Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen are here to bring you episode 23 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). We gave you our predictions of who would shine at the Africa Cup of Nations a couple of weeks ago and in the wake of the tournament, we look at who and what impressed us the most. Speaking of stars, after Jordan Ibe made a sensational Merseyside derby debut, we look at youngsters who bu...

Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen are back to bring you a Transfer Deadline Day special of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). It's certainly been a quiet and arguably dull January transfer window compared to previous seasons, but that doesn't mean there aren't some tasty deals - or failed deals - to dissect. We look at the clubs who've not taken advantage of the mid-season opportunity to s...

Hayley McQueen returns to join Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper on episode 21 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). Love it or hate it, the January transfer window is drawing to a close and we look at the best, worst and craziest January deadline day signings ever; can 2015 possibly top any of these? Big money signings are becoming younger, and we then discuss upcoming youngsters who have made the move t...

We're at the halfway point in the season as Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper bring you episode 20 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). To celebrate this milestone we're joined by a special guest, exec producer and football agent Jo Tongue, who gives us the gossip on what it's like to be a football agent; is it all really wheeling and dealing, and what's been her funniest moment with a client? In the wak...

Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen are reunited for episode 19 of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). From a Juan Mata jingle to racing managers around a horse track, we've got everything you need to cheer you up on a cold winter day! We're halfway through the season so it's time to make some predictions: who will nab the Champions League spots, get relegated from the Premier League and prom...

Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay kick off the new year with a bang to bring you the first Offside Rule Podcast (We Get It!) of 2015. We look at fining vain footballers and foul-mouthed mascots after it was revealed Blyth Spartans charge £2 if you urinate in their shower (a regular problem, we wonder?) Elsewhere a mother of four sobbing her heart out upon hearing of Gerrard's imminent departure from L...

Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen deliver The Offside Rule (We Get It!) podcast's exclusive present to you in this week's podcast extra! We took the show to another level with a live pubcast recently, and were joined by Arsenal legend Ray Parlour; of course we had to grill him about his time in football! From dodgy tank tops to special European moments and a missed apple pie, Ray lifts...

It's that time of year again and what better way to countdown to Christmas than a festive special from The Offside Rule (We Get It!) with Kait Borsay, Lynsey Hooper and Hayley McQueen. Complete with jingle bells and twinkling stars the girls take their pick of festive fixtures to forward to. It's time to play Santa - so who's been naughty and who's been nice? Cristiano Ronaldo gets points for gene...

The Offside Rule (We Get It!) takes on another new challenge with our very first PubCast in front of a live audience! Kait Borsay, Lynsey Hooper and Hayley McQueen were joined by Arsenal legend Ray Parlour to discuss the best bits from the Champions League and Europa League group stages; from an evening with 40 goals to a player with 99% pass completion rate, it was certainly an exciting few month...

It's the final match week of the UEFA Champions League and Europa League - Hayley McQueen, Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper bring you The Offside Rule Euro Show to review all the best of the action. From a final look at who made it through and who'll be sticking to domestic football to stand-out performers this week. As the lights literally went out on the group stages, Gerard Pique rocks a jumper co...