Lynsey Hooper is a sports journalist and broadcaster who is one third of the Offside Rule podcast, with fellow Sky Sports reporters Hayley McQueen and Kait Borsay, which has been taking football to a majority female audience since 2012. The idea came from conversations the three had while working at Sky in the Andy Gray and Richard Keys era.If this is your first time with us, feel free to dive in to our archive via UnofficialPartner.com where you can hear our interviews with a wide range fo guests from Charlie Sale, Dame Heather Rabbatts Rory Sutherland, Steve Martin, Ed Smith and a host of other people who make their mark in and around the business of sport. If you’re a regular listener, it would help us enormously if you rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. This helps more people find us and broadens our reach.

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