The Offside Rule

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The Offside Rule 2015/16 Episode 19 Dec 17, 2015

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It's double trouble once again on The Offside Rule (We Get It!) as Hayley McQueen rejoins Lynsey Hooper to present episode 19 of the award-winning podcast, brought to you by Continental Tyres. We all know footballers aren't exactly short on money, but that doesn't stop them looking for other ways to amass a fortune. So who's recently had a bit of a windfall? The sporting world is geared up for Sports Personality of the Year this week; but what if it was a football-only nominations? We give you our 12 nominees and fight their corner for the award. Finally, with Christmas coming up next week (yes, really!) we couldn't finish without a festive topic, so we give you our best Christmas cracker jokes - from the cringey to the ones that'll crack you up (get it?) we've got the jokes covered! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Offside Rule 2015/16 Episode 18 Dec 10, 2015

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Football presenter Ali Bender joins Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper as a guest presenter on this week's The Offside Rule (We Get It!), brought to you by Continental Tyres. Chelsea's woes continue as they lost 1-0 to Bournemouth at the weekend; we finally look at what's gone wrong for Ali's Blues this season - is it Mourinho's meltdowns? Underperforming players? The wind?! As Christmas creeps closer we're feeling festive, so we bring you The Offside Rule Advent Calendar, with treats, players and statistics behind each door. We've all heard of parents naming their children after their favourite footballers, but this week a zoo has named three baby pumas after Barcelona's strikeforce - Messi, Neymar and Suarez. It's not just babies that are named after footballing heroes; we look to Australia and Northumberland where homage has been paid to local heroes in unique ways! There's loads of great content to discover at www.offsiderulepodcast.com - you can pop over to Twitter @OffsideRulePod and Like our Facebook page. Out every Thursday. #Football #Soccer #PremierLeague #EPL #Women #League #FAWSL #England #KaitBorsay #LynseyHooper #AliBender #Chelsea #JoseMourinho #EdenHazard #CescFabregas #BranislavIvanovic #JohnTerry #EvaCarneiro #PetrCech #DiegoCosta #RaphaëlVarane #ThomasMüller #DimitriPayet #RobertLewandowski #KarimBenzema #MarcoReus #Higuain #MatsHummels #JurgenKlopp #Liverpool #LeicesterCity #Sunderland #NewcastleUnited #ManchesterCity #SergioAguero #WomensWorldCup #CarliLloyd #Canada #VincentKompany #MartinSkrtel #StokeCity #GlenJohnson #AaronRamsey #Wales #Ronaldo #SirAlexFerguson #DeleAlli #TottenhamHotspur #ReeceOxford #MehmetTopal #JohnStones #LucyBronze #YNWA #JackieMilburn #TimCahill #Suarez #Messi #Neymar #Barcelona #England #Rooney #Gerrard #Banks #JohanCruyff #Zlatan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Offside Rule 2015/16 Episode 17 Dec 03, 2015

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Lynsey Hooper rejoins Kait Borsay and Mina Rzouki for this week's The Offside Rule (We Get It!), brought to you by Continental Tyres. Rio Ferdinand has launched a stinging attack on the quality of English football, as England's 4th place in the Champions League could be lost - but are we really that bad? There have been some standout teams this season, so we give them an end-of-term report card in time for the Christmas break. Diego Costa seems to have had a strop after being an unused sub at the weekend, throwing his bib at manager Mourinho; this got us thinking about some of the best bust-ups in football - who said their former manager was a coward, and why were there fisticuffs at Fiorentina? Here at The Offside Rule, we're big fans of WhatsApp, and we're not the only ones - Luis Suarez uses it to pick up an injured Leo Messi from training, and to motivate his teammates! We have a stab at some of the WhatsApp groups around including footballers - there's teasing, moaning and moral support groups! There's loads of great content to discover at www.offsiderulepodcast.com - you can pop over to Twitter @OffsideRulePod and Like our Facebook page. Out every Thursday. Hashtags #Football #Soccer #PremierLeague #EPL #Women #League #FAWSL #England #KaitBorsay #MinaRzouki #LynseyHooper #ManchesterUnited #LouisVanGaal #SirAlexFerguson #Chelsea #JoseMourinho #Southampton #RonaldKoeman #Arsenal #Everton #LeicesterCity #Liverpool #TottenhamHotspur #ManchesterCity #HarryRedknapp #AdelTaraabt #QueensParkRangers #Fiorentina #DelloRossi #NigelPearson #JamesMcArthur #Gattuso #JoeJordan #DiegoCosta #VincentKompany #WinstonReid #JanVertonghen #AndyCarroll #CarltonCole #FernandoTorres #DavidMoyes #SteveMcClaren #TonyAdams #PepGuardiola #Ibrahimovic #Lucio #Rivaldo #JohnTerry #MarioBalotelli #MemphisDepay #BayernMunich Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Offside Rule 2015/16 Episode 16 Nov 26, 2015

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Kait Borsay, Hayley McQueen and Mina Rzouki are back to present the award-winning Offside Rule (We Get It!), brought to you by Continental Tyres. Hot off the heels of our Best Football Podcast award at the Football Blogging Awards, we're bringing you the fun football content you know and love. While Kait was in Manchester picking up our award, some of The Offside Rule team were at an Opta quiz, which came with some challenging questions and interesting trivia - certainly one for the stats aficionados! We bring you some of the best bits of trivia from this season - they could come in handy for a future pub quiz! With Jamie Vardy's record-equalling goal at the weekend there's talk of a new golden boot recipient - can Vardy keep it up or will one of the usual suspects like Sergio Aguero swoop in? It's been a dramatic week around Europe, as the Athens derby was cancelled following riots and fireworks from fans, while in Belgium a player relieved himself on the pitch - we look at other weird and wacky reasons for cancelled or delayed football matches - including a mafia granddad! There's loads of great content to discover at www.offsiderulepodcast.com - you can pop over to Twitter @OffsideRulePod and Like our Facebook page. Out every Thursday. #Football #Soccer #PremierLeague #EPL #Women #League #FAWSL #England #KaitBorsay #MinaRzouki #FBAs #StokeCity #IbrahimAffelay #Chelsea #AnthonyMartial #ManchesterUnited #RomeluLukaku #Everton #Norwich #Arsenal #LeicesterCity #JackButland #NewcastleUnited #JamieVardy #SergioAguero #ManchesterCity #JordanRhodes #BlackburnRovers #AdamArmstrong #CoventryCity #Genoa #Sienna #Sculli #BeachBall #AnfieldCat #Liverpool #Sunderland #Scotland #Estonia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Offside Rule 2015/16 Episode 15 Nov 19, 2015

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Mina Rzouki is back to join Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper on The Offside Rule (We Get It!), brought to you by Continental Tyres. We're playing Mystic Meg (again!) and telling the four-tunes of the top 4 sides - now that we've seen Chelsea struggle, who could swoop in and steal their place? Here at The Offside Rule, we love a story about a footballer running another business, and we've recently discovered Mathieu Flamini is a secret entrepreneur - his business, GF Biochemicals, could be worth a whopping £20billion. We think he should use it to buy Arsenal, and we look at previous players who've bought clubs to gauge if it would be a successful venture... We think more players should take note from Tammy Abraham and Patrick Roberts to solve an on-pitch dispute - the England under-19 stars played rock, paper, scissors to decide who would take a penalty in their game against Japan. Who else has came up with an inventive idea to solve an on-the-pitch dispute? It seems referees have a lot to answer for... There's loads of great content to discover at www.offsiderulepodcast.com - you can pop over to Twitter @OffsideRulePod and Like our Facebook page. Out every Thursday. #Football #Soccer #PremierLeague #EPL #Women #League #FAWSL #England #KaitBorsay #LynseyHooper #MinaRzouki #ManchesterCity #Arsenal #Liverpool #ManchesterUnited #TottenhamHotspur #GeorgeDowell #Worthing #GianluigiBuffon #Carrarese #FrancisLee #PeterKay #Trabzonspor #Kuwait #Stats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Offside Rule 2015/16 Episode 14 Nov 12, 2015

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Hayley McQueen, Kait Borsay and Lynsey Hooper are back for a good old football natter on The Offside Rule (We Get It!), brought to you by Continental Tyres. It's still early days in the season but with Chelsea floundering and the likes of Leicester City flying in the league, we could be looking at some new sides representing England in Europe next season. We look back at some of the most unlikely European successes in recent years, including a team who've changed their name 17 times! In light of Lynsey's house move, we play Renovation Nation with Roy Hodgson's Euro 2016 squad; who would we bring in and who'd get dropped? Finally we go back to the podcast's roots; The Offside Rule (We Get It!) came about following an infamous incident caught off-air between two well-known pundits. We think it's time to get rid of some of the punditing deadwood again and bring in some fresh faces! There's loads of great content to discover at www.offsiderulepodcast.com - you can pop over to Twitter @OffsideRulePod and Like our Facebook page. Out every Thursday. Hashtags #Football #Soccer #PremierLeague #EPL #Women #League #FAWSL #England #KaitBorsay #LynseyHooper #HayleyMcQueen #Chelsea #LeicesterCity #SCBraga #ArtmediaBratislava #FCPetrzalka #Celtic #Slovakia #PartizanBelgrade #Porto #Molde #RoyHodgson #LukeShaw #JoeHart #ChrisSmalling #GaryCahill #NathanielClyne #JamesMilner #JackWilshere #RossBarkley #HarryKane #JamieVardy #DanielSturridge #RaheemSterling #MichaelOwen #MarkLawrenson #EniAluko #KellySmith #CaseyStoney #RobGreen #JimmyBullard #DannyMurphy #MiaHamm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Offside Rule 15/16 - Continental Tyres Cup Special Nov 05, 2015

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Lynsey Hooper rejoins Kait Borsay to bring you a special episode of The Offside Rule (We Get It!) recorded straight after the Continental Tyres Cup final, where Arsenal Ladies ran out victorious. We dissect the game and grab Player of the Match Jordan Nobbs for a post-match chat, where she tells us about her topsy-turvy season and trophy joy. We also interview Arsenal teammate Leah Williamson and Notts County Ladies' goalkeeper Carly Telford to get their thoughts on the game. It's been a great competition and we look at the standout players of the tournament. We seldom see a cup final without some drama, and this one was no different as Notts County captain Laura Bassett saw red. We look at some of the most dramatic cup finals, in both the women's and the men's games, over the years. There's loads of great content to discover at www.offsiderulepodcast.com - you can pop over to Twitter @OffsideRulePod and Like our Facebook page. Out every Thursday. Hashtags #Football #Soccer #PremierLeague #EPL #Women #League #FAWSL #England #KaitBorsay #ContinentalTyresCup #JordanNobbs #Arsenal #LeahWilliamson #CarlyTelford #NottsCounty #RachelYankey #Liverpool #StevenGerrard #WestHamUnited #ManchesterUnited #EricCantona #AlexGreenwood #IzzyChristiansen #VickyLosada #JessClarke #JoPotter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Offside Rule 2015/6 Episode 12 Oct 29, 2015

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It's double trouble this week on The Offside Rule (We Get It!), as Hayley McQueen and Kait Borsay team up for episode 12 of the podcast, brought to you by Continental Tyres. October has been a month of managerial dismissals, with eight leaving their jobs in the top four English leagues, including the high profile Premier League departures of Tim Sherwood, Dick Advocaat and Brendan Rodgers. A number of other managers are teetering on the edge, so we look at who might depart in the month of November. FIFA's presidential candidates have been announced, with a notable lack of women and ex-players; but who would we like to see running the world football governing body? Carlo Ancelotti is making the most of his sabbatical from football, and has only gone and got a cameo in next year's Star Trek movie! Will we be hearing "beam me up Ancelotti?" The news got us thinking about footballer cameos on the big and small screen; which Premier League footballer nearly had his own Sky talk show, and who's going to be in the upcoming Entourage film? Finally in the spooky spirit, we give your our best Halloween XI... There's loads of great content to discover at www.offsiderulepodcast.com - you can pop over to Twitter @OffsideRulePod and Like our Facebook page. Out every Thursday. #Football #Soccer #PremierLeague #EPL #Women #League #FAWSL #England #KaitBorsay #HayleyMcQueen #JoseMourinho #Chelsea #NeilLennon #BoltonWanderers #LeeJohnson #Barnsley #FIFA #DavidBeckham #DavidNakhid #MoyaDodd #LydiaNsekera #SamAllardyce #CarloAncelotti #StarTrekBeyond #PeterCrouch #DionDublin #HomesUnderTheHammer #JimmyBullard #JimmyBullardKicksOff #MattLeTissier #ThierryHenry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Offside Rule 2015/16 Episode 11 Oct 22, 2015

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Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay are joined once again by podcast regular Mina Rzouki for episode 11 of The Offside Rule Podcast (We Get It!) 2015-16, brought to you by Continental Tyres. Cristiano Ronaldo finally surpassed Raul's goal tally to become Real Madrid's all-time top scorer; it was a hard record to beat, so we look at football record holders around the world that won't be beaten any time soon. It was a sombre affair at Everton this week, as legendary manager Howard Kendall sadly passed away. The club's reminiscing got us thinking about some other greats that the modern game is missing and who we'd bring back. Finally we get lyrical after this month's National Poetry day, and write a short poem about how we feel about each of our clubs... There's loads of great content to discover at www.offsiderulepodcast.com - you can pop over to Twitter @OffsideRulePod and Like our Facebook page. Out every Thursday. #Football #Soccer #PremierLeague #EPL #Women #League #FAWSL #England #LynseyHooper #KaitBorsay #MinaRzouki #CristianoRonaldo #RaulTamudo #Espanyol #RealMadrid #Barcelona #AdamCollin #CarlisleUnited #BobbyStuart #Middlesbrough #CoventryCity #ClarrieBourton #GaetanoScirea #Juventis #WilfWoodcock #ManchesterCity #ManchesterUnited #GarySpeed #LeedsUnited #Wales #NewcastleUnited #Liverpool #Wolves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Offside Rule 2015/16 Episode 10 Oct 15, 2015

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Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay are joined once again by podcast regular Mina Rzouki for episode 10 of The Offside Rule Podcast (We Get It!) 2015-16, brought to you by Continental Tyres. 10 is the magic number for more than one reason, as England won all 10 of their Euro 2016 qualifiers. Now, the qualifiers are done and dusted, so we're going to talk home nations, play-offs, the tournament favourite and our dark horse. Northern Ireland captain fittingly Steven Davis scored a brace against Greece to send the team to their first major finals in 30 years, so we look at some of the best current captains. Sue Smith joins us for a round up on the Continental Cup and some good news from the Doncaster Belles. Finally, it seems the whole country is excited by the arrival of the captivating Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool. The Premier League now boasts some of the best managerial personalities in the game; we have a bit of fun and give these managers some real world jobs. From hairdressers to bull fighters, we've got them covered! There's loads of great content to discover at www.offsiderulepodcast.com - you can pop over to Twitter @OffsideRulePod and Like our Facebook page. Out every Thursday. #Football #Soccer #PremierLeague #EPL #Women #League #FAWSL #England #LynseyHooper #KaitBorsay #MinaRzouki #JurgenKlopp #Euro2016 #Wales #NorthernIreland #RepublicOfIreland #Croatia #France #GarethBale #IkerCasillas #Spain #RealMadrid #Xavi #ElClasico #Barcelona #Italy #MarkusRosenberg #JohnTerry #KatieChapman #PhilipLahm #JoseFonte #JoseMourinho #LouisVanGaal #Chelsea #ManchesterUnited #ArseneWenger #MauricioPochettino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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