The Offside Rule

A striking affair this week and who better to join us on The Offside Rule (We Get It!) than Carrie Brown? On the agenda - best strikers in football, identical wonder goals and defending.. not on the pitch, off it. Tennis balls, angry WAGS and telling fibs on TV. What more could your footballing week need? Well, Mina Rzouki tells all from Serie A and Sean Thorne delights us once again with Twitter...

A football league special. Sometimes there just aren't enough awards, so (oh go on then) Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen are back with another episode of The Offside Rule (We Get It!) to dish out some more. Whether you're a football league aficionado or you can tell your Rotherham from your Rochdale there are some tales this week to reignite even the most Premier League-weary of foot...

A three horse race. Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen are back for another episode of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). One for the record books - what in football has made history this season? After Manchester City's shock FA Cup exit the FA Cup predictor makes an appearance and what else could we discuss during Cheltenham week than horses? The best football and horse mash ups we can mus...

Need a hand? You'd better ask Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen - find out why in this new episode of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). Cup final wonder goals are up for grabs and with a relegation battle in the Premier League that's anyone's guess, we.. err.. have a good guess. Talking of helping hands football donations are also on the agenda. Why else could you include Mrs Beckham, the...

A Russian import this week, and a West Brom-supporting Bundesliga expert - Kate Partridge joins Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay for another weekly episode of The Offside Rule (We Get It!). As England prepares for another World Cup Kate gets tapped up for German intelligence - find out which Bundesliga players you should be looking out for. Then fast forward to the European Championships and pick up...

Guest presenter Casey Stoney joins Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay to discuss the reaction she's had since publicly announcing she is gay. And find out why the England captain has made a return to Arsenal Ladies ahead of the new Women's Super League season. Plenty of great anecdotes from Casey too, including a few beauties on footballer's past jobs.. from humble beginnings superstars are born. Fulha...

What do you get when you leave Roy's England selection for Brazil to Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen? Some fresh faces that's what. Who needs Steven Gerrard anyway? With David Moyes admitting it's as bad as it gets for his team, horror stories are compared. Whether it will make the Manchester United manager feel any better though is quite another thing. And footballers on twitter - t...

We hope you've got a good imagination for this one, we've got celebrity parents and their football offspring to discuss - Diana Ross gets a couple of mentions! Fresh from the chaos of Transfer Deadline Day and the general chaos at Leeds United at present Lynsey Hooper, Hayley McQueen and Sarah-Jane Mee are back with 30 minutes of football chat. This week - the top three January transfers from acro...

With transfers the hot topic and fresh from a weekend of FA Cup action Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen are back with 30 minutes of football clucker.* This week - football heroes leaving their club under a ray of sunshine, a scratch around the FA Cup archives and the best and worst of the FA Cup fourth round bench warmers - who impressed and who should stay on the fringes? Sean Thorne...

Lynsey Hooper, Hayley McQueen and Kait Borsay are back with contradictions in football. Yes they are. No they aren't. The best of the Championship's topsy turvy results and notable recent 100's in football - what gets your vote? Laure James rounds up the best of Ligue 1 and Sean Thorne talks undeserving earners. You can find us at www.offsiderulepodcast.com on Twitter @OffsideRulePod and on Facebo...

Fresh from slippery baked beans and the SoccerAM dance off Lisa O'Grady joins Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen to talk relegation picks, transfers that happen for bizarre reasons and moments when you just want the ground to swallow you up. Lisa remembers impersonating a stadium tannoy and Hayley going footloose on match day. The humiliation continues with spot kick disasters in Twitter Topic of the...

The Offside Rule is back with a bang for 2014 - Hayley, Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay pop football folk into last year's Hall of Fame and go retro (show their age) by playing swap shop with Premier League players - who should go where? With most of you rested after an end of year break who has no lights out in the game and just can't switch off? It could be enough to send you (and them) barmy. Sea...

Happy Christmas! As a festive treat we thought you'd enjoy 2 minutes of outtakes from this year's The Offside Rule recordings. Featuring Hayley McQueen, Kait Borsay, Lynsey Hooper and Samantha Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Goodness. Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay are cancelling Christmas. Not every club mind, so who deserves to forget the turkey and put in some extra reps instead? With an unlimited budget the duo are also playing Santa's little helper and offering up Christmas presents with an unlimited budget. I wonder if Billy and Betty Brewer have any idea what's in store for them? And here's an easy one, over ind...

This might be the last episode ever.. if Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay don't stop arguing about Mick McCarthy. Luckily Hayley McQueen is on hand to act as referee. Also this week the good, the bad and the ugly of managerial departures, background staff get a spot of recognition and honesty is the best policy. Or is it? Kate Partridge brings you the best of Bundesliga and Sean Thorne rounds up your...

New Manchester City Ladies signing and England international Jill Scott joins Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay this week. Plenty of questions for Jill on her recent big move as well as a couple of topics to chew over. Newcastle have started winning, so what other teams has turned it around this season? From the Championship to Serie A. And after a hilarious story involving Joe Kinnear - we look at ot...

Natalie Sawyer makes a welcome return to the Offside Rule this week alongside Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen. After AVB said his players should be ashamed what other shameful games spring to mind? We hand out managerial awards from the Championship down and talk away day tales - car mix ups, (non)local derbies and a ladies loo shocker. Finally, Mina Rzouki reports in on Serie A and Sean Thorne bri...

It's time to gear up for the carnival with Lynsey Hooper, Hayley McQueen and Kait Borsay - but of those teams qualified for Brazil 2014 so far who would they take as their best XI? Only one player features in all three teams. There's match abandonment due to drunkenness, lighting and very suspicious circumstances and when fans become too fanatical, how you can take the beautiful game just that one...

The man with the big hands. Mario Balotelli and The Big Dawg. It's time for another neatly packaged pod from Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen. After Tim Krul's heroics which other goalkeepers have put in a performance to remember? Halloween may have come and gone but which players have haunted their former clubs? And footballer lessons - heard the one about the electrical engineer Pre...

As part of the one-year anniversary celebrations Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay popped into see TalkSPORT's Hawksbee & Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're not hungover after our first birthday, honest. Kait Borsay, Hayley McQueen and Alison Bender are talking top eight - ten games into the new Premier League season. How will the table turn by the end of 2013? There's fan loyalty to extremes and then a walk on the wild side - when animals mix with football. Parrot interrogation, a dog with a great head for goal and a cat called Wimbledon. Enoug...

Our one year anniversary might fall In Halloween week but there's no trick here, just treats all round with this week's special birthday episode from Lynsey Hooper, Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen. A look at other first year successes (yes I know, we're modest too!) and then it goes a bit macabre. Football gets scary with hauntings, ghost goals and bewitching form. And who in football would you tak...

Shh! For your ears only.. Lynsey Hooper, Hayley McQueen and Kait Borsay reveal football's darkest secrets (ok, that might be over-egging it). Did you know though that Sol Campbell went to drama school? Then worst refereeing decisions and subs that really should be seeing more action. Who should leave the subs bench and make a move for first team football? And who would have them? Faye Carruthers g...

Not for the faint-hearted. There are dares, draws and daft appointments this week as Lynsey Hooper, Hayley McQueen and Kait Borsay do the honours. Nakedness* and playground tactics - who would you dare in the football world? Our experts pick an FA Cup and World Cup qualifying minnow and the most ridiculous appointments in football. You can't hire your odd-job man as a chief scout can you? Faye Car...

Another hopscotch through the world of football. Lynsey Hooper, Hayley McQueen and Kait Borsay select top Premier League player picks from the over 25's - who might get club player of the season? We're not ones for mush (ok, maybe just a bit) but we can't help ourselves this week with many tales of footballing kindness. Altogether now... Finally after her Majesty opened Bucks Palace up to a footba...