http://www.offthepost.info/podcast The Off The Post Podcast is a sachet of Premiership-focused mp3-gold; a full-plate of scuffed facts with a drizzle of puns laid on a bed of unconventional and entirely unhelpful observations. Although glitz, glamour, goals and abysmal haircuts in England’s top-tier get most of our attention, rest assured - if a player scores an own goal with his backside in the Uzbekistani conference league – this is where you’ll receive an in-depth analysis and a search for an existential meaning behind it. If a beer-goggled 2 Good 2 Bad were to lay down with a half-decent episode of Soccer AM, the OTP podcast would be the resulting illegitimate love child. offthepost@hotmail.co.uk (Rob Parker) en-us Thu, 17 May 2012 01:28:24 GMT Hipcast RSS Feeder 1.25 Sports 60 http://toepoke.hipcast.com/albumart/1004.1337218104.jpg http://www.offthepost.info/podcast Off The Post The Off The Post Podcast is a sachet of Premiership-focused mp3-gold; a full-plate of scuffed facts with a drizzle of puns laid on a bed of unconventional and entirely unhelpful observations. Although glitz, glamour, goals and abysmal haircuts in England’s top-tier get most of our attention, rest assured - if a player scores an own goal with his backside in the Uzbekistani conference league – this is where you’ll receive an in-depth analysis and a search for an existential meaning behind it. If a beer-goggled 2 Good 2 Bad were to lay down with a half-decent episode of Soccer AM, the OTP podcast would be the resulting illegitimate love child. Coaxing nonsense from the footballing woodwork no sports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccer sports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerSports & Recreationpodcast@offthepost.into 07c78206-87f0-2647-728d-c51e5836eb28 Tue, 15 May 2012 16:15:34 GMT 00:58:37 Off The Post no Ep.38 Noisy Neighbours 10 months. 380 games. 1,066 goals. And yet Man City still waited until 4.52PM on the final day of the season to somehow re-hang the title race door back on its battered hinges and slam it in the face of a Manchester United team who thought they had just found the key under the doormat. So with the title race finally slamming shut, and Bolton slipping down the trapdoor lined with parachute payments and chickens in capes, it’s all over for another year. And before you say anything, yes it really did happen – Wigan stayed up with a game to spare. So in light of all the Premier League final day shenanigans, why not let the Off The Post podcast help you sift through all the post-season analysis with a bit of the following tripe: George Elokobi hits Wikipedia to research his new manager, how not to organise an away trip in Bilbao, why Alex McLeish could find himself selling candy floss this summer, and discover just what it felt like to watch that Sergio Aguero winner....in Mexico. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/47b2c0a9-0890-364e-0b31-c147e855faf7.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/47b2c0a9-0890-364e-0b31-c147e855faf7.mp3 e97e6cd7-b993-afab-155d-08b51d9f928e Tue, 08 May 2012 22:16:58 GMT 00:47:31 Off The Post no Ep.37 Yaya Glouré It’s all getting a bit tight in the Premier League, and with just a handful of games left to go there are still many questions waiting to be answered. Who’s going to win it? Who’s going down? Who’s finishing fourth? Will a lucky Wigan fan once again catch Roberto Martinez's jacket? We just don’t know. But to give you an ever so slightly better idea, why not give this week’s Off The Post podcast a listen. You might even become a bit more knowledgeable on the following: how to bend an already strained title race metaphor to breaking point, why Pat Rice needs to invest in a wetsuit for the Arsenal dugout, some rather violent man-management in Italy, and why you should get Mark Hughes to pick your lottery numbers. We’ve also got a blow by blow account of a rather timid FA Cup final day out, we pick our favourite goals from 20 PL seasons, and Paddy once again blows us away with his fastest, most compact Football League countdown to date. Now get that chicken off the pitch. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/0ceaf937-2f06-de40-c621-692ded9cfe06.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/0ceaf937-2f06-de40-c621-692ded9cfe06.mp3 d22035fc-edfe-862d-af11-30e4a639820c Tue, 01 May 2012 19:48:58 GMT 00:45:34 Off The Post no Ep.36 One's Kompany What2019s that sound? Is it Fernando Torres wrenching open the floodgates? Is it Sandro vomiting all over the Blackburn penalty area? Is it Fergie and Mancini bickering? Or is it the title race being BLOWN WIDE OPEN? We just don2019t know. After another wild weekend of Premier League action which involved title deciders, fourth-place shootouts and relegation scraps a plenty, why not let the Off The Post Podcast filter out all the background noise (you know - hard-nosed analysis, in-depth observations etc) and instead tickle your eardrums with all the juicy bits, like this: where to go if you fancy a game of beach volleyball with Ryan Shawcross, synchronised mockery at the Britannia, Lyon2019s very own version of Avatar, and the best place to get a steak bake in North London. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/9b24d165-1d70-77cc-c8fa-d8ee73ebc504.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/9b24d165-1d70-77cc-c8fa-d8ee73ebc504.mp3 133fad76-f13a-386a-61aa-30b2fc94be09 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:58:55 GMT 00:48:24 Off The Post no Ep.35 Shoddy Timing Right, we'll come clean – this week's show was recorded on Monday night, because nothing exciting ever happens on a Tuesday, does it? Oh. Chelsea's dramatic win last night means pod pundit Alex is still being scraped off a ceiling somewhere in West London, somewhere in Switzerland a poor UEFA jobsworth is hastily adding 'giving your opponent a dead leg' to the list of red card offences in the Champions League rulebook, and unfortunately there's nothing in the show about any of it. In slightly older news, it’s all been blown wide open....AGAIN. Who’s going to win the title? Who’s going down? Problem is, until it happens, we just don’t know. But what we do know is this – our very tired title race door metaphor still has legs (just about) and it’s a next stop: Championship for Terry Connor and his Wolves team. That jubilant post-match interview with Big Mick and George Elokobi on the final day of last season seems like a long lost dream right now. Something else that’s certain is that the Off The Post Podcast is back for another week, and this time around we’ll be tickling your eardrums with the following: Why Roberto Martinez must spend most of his free time in Currys, styling tips from Papisse Demba Cisse, a very painful refereeing decision in Italy, and the best birthday ever at Stamford Bridge. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/1e0b8133-acf6-8fd3-27e5-5a6c552203e3.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/1e0b8133-acf6-8fd3-27e5-5a6c552203e3.mp3 3ce8fbf7-c519-3bdb-dc1d-eb0ef0dd4da2 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:01:06 GMT 00:45:50 Off The Post no Ep.34 Goal-Whine Technology Ghost goals? Dodgy penalties? Andy Carrol scoring two goals in two games? The world of football has gone mad (again)! So to help you make sense of it, the Off The Post Podcast will be gathering up all the weekend2019s Premier League and FA Cup madness, sticking it all in a Wembley-sized blender, and then feeding the resulting audio smoothie into your ears. In the process we2019ll also be answering the following questions: Did Ashley Young step on an exposed power line at Old Trafford? Really just how good is Carlos Tevez at golf? What do you do if a swarm of bees attacks during a football match? And of course, WHEN WILL WE GET THE TECHNOLOGY?! (Probably next season). If that2019s not enough for you we2019ve also an exclusive interview with Will Tidey from top US Sports website The Bleacher Report to give us some top notch build-up to the Chelsea-Barcelona CL clash and his thoughts on the title race (and trust us he should know 2013 he has written a book about Fergie after all). Have some of that. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/e31f8ff2-1b4f-2834-7357-f8ed869c9240.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/e31f8ff2-1b4f-2834-7357-f8ed869c9240.mp3 5dff7bee-e6ac-b2de-ad1c-2c4787f3a627 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:13:50 GMT 00:46:12 Off The Post no Ep.33 Blue Gloom Football! Everywhere! Once again the classic Premier League combination of fixture congestion, tired legs, and a general lack of squad depth has given the Off The Post Podcast plenty to talk about in this bumper Easter edition of the pod. While Fergie has been slamming the title race shut and double bolting the door, Norwich have continued their push for Europe in that lovely green kit, someone has actually managed to rile Roberto Martinez, and QPR have had a man sent off, again. And that2019s before we even get started on the following: twinkle toes at the Emirates, waterlogged pitch based-hi jinks in the Vietnamese Super League, why Chappers could soon be introducing Hollyoaks, and a bit more about Wolves being rubbish. Eggshellent. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/ad295d37-55aa-bebe-37af-d86d53264d7c.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/ad295d37-55aa-bebe-37af-d86d53264d7c.mp3 a2fa9c60-4e0a-6e16-2972-2a04cd683c1d Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:02:10 GMT 00:46:34 Off The Post no Ep.32 Fight! Fight! Fight! The Premier League offered up its very own Wrestlemania at the weekend with three delightfully theatrical bouts. The pod review and commend the undercard (Odemwingie v Foster, Balotelli vs sanity) and the big bucks main event, Roger 2018Beer breath2019 Johnson vs Wayne 2018blonde bombshell2019 Hennessey. The in-house tremor at Molineux was a precursor to an eruption of dismay for Wolves, who look set to slowly smoulder in to Championship obscurity. That2019s one down and two to go and with battle-hardened Wigan , QPR and Bolton all grabbing a crucial 3 points, we discuss the type of suction that is dragging Aston Villa down in to an unwanted relegation dog-fight. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/fcc579b2-2682-ad90-fa92-e9837b347cae.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/fcc579b2-2682-ad90-fa92-e9837b347cae.mp3 b80c1008-67b6-8225-e5a9-b888bb9d1451 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:30:50 GMT 00:42:32 Off The Post no Ep.31 Anfield Crap It was all about the weather at the weekend as the summer sun came early to light up a bevy of eventful Premier League match-ups. We take a peek at the North London clubs, where Arsenal bask in a 7-game winning streak and Spurs continued to get lost in the fog of the high-pressured home straight. Criticism rains down on Liverpool once more as their horrific home form goes through a bigger dry spell than the Kalahari Desert. To re-hydrate, the pod’s salivary gland goes in to overdrive by drooling over Crouchie’s thunderous strike and Grant Holt’s refreshing brace. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/1c3f62e8-13b4-35d4-0518-48c294bd8a1f.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/1c3f62e8-13b4-35d4-0518-48c294bd8a1f.mp3 0acf6b10-143a-6d02-1271-4440744c77f2 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:25:08 GMT 00:44:26 Off The Post no Ep.30 Fernando Scorres Not for the first time this season, events in the world of football have transcended the sport for the worst possible reasons. Here at the OTP podcast we are the first to admit our irreverant tone is not best suited to discussing such heartbreaking occurrences, however our thoughts are of course with Fabrice Muamba, his family and team-mates; and grateful to the heroic medics whose instant response spared a far greater tragedy. Elsewhere, the pod were left knee-deep in water after Fernando Torres cranked open the floodgates, but still found time to paddle around the rest of the domestic action and enjoy something rarer than a Wolves clean sheet – a Premier League/FA Cup hybrid weekend! So why not pop the waders on and enjoy some of the following: kicking back in the Chelsea common room, Norwich’s nice green kit, why you’ve got to be tough to play in the Hong Kong under 12s league, and the much vaunted return of Paddy’s Football League roundup (sort of). http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/3e6b1d51-6f4e-69f4-1207-f39745a860ca.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/3e6b1d51-6f4e-69f4-1207-f39745a860ca.mp3 feea119f-bc18-e780-5ca1-6674352bcdc3 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:30:19 GMT 00:40:39 Off The Post no Ep.29 Haunted Hoops With the unfortunate Clint Hill denied a certain goal at the weekend, the pod looks at the unsightly event that looks likely to rumble on in QPR’s stomachs like an uncooked curry. Whilst some analysts went for the insightful technology debate angle, we opted to meditate on whether ‘ghost’ goals haunt their victims. Will an apparition of Alex Bogdan stalk Hill for the rest of his career? Also this week - aptly in the lead up to Easter - a theme of resurrection arises: the title race is alive and kicking, Steve Keane may finally have tamed his critics and McLeish makes a gamble and wins big against all the odds with the last throw of a desperate dice at Villa Park. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/b2db3bb8-3154-aa58-92a5-908402854a87.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/b2db3bb8-3154-aa58-92a5-908402854a87.mp3 300a8cef-6586-d956-5df7-5571fc01dec9 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:42:03 GMT 00:46:54 Off The Post no Ep.28 Andre's Very Brief It was all business as usual in the Premier League this week – Chelsea sacked a manager, Robin van Persie notched up a couple more goals, and Lee Cattermole somehow managed to pick up a booking and also a straight red in the same game. But while AVB has been packing his bags, and little Lee has been paying his disciplinary fine to the FA, the Off The Post podders have been cobbling together another show. Give this week’s edition a listen and you’ll get the following forced upon you – how Jamie O’Hara has started to get his fashion influences from cheesy savoury snacks, a linesman gets a double beatdown in Disneyland, and why Pavel Pogrebnyak is the perfect person to share a bottle of Merlot with. Apparently he’s a good boy, too. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/7b286cb8-9785-4862-591b-cdd31fbe103e.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/7b286cb8-9785-4862-591b-cdd31fbe103e.mp3 61e33f21-5c0e-ce2f-4305-fc0d2f278668 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:37:13 GMT 00:40:29 Off The Post no Ep.27 Five Gunner Salute North London looted itself once more this week, as Arsenal defibrillated their Champions League qualification chances by giving Spurs a right good spanking. The pod set about making sense of it all – can Rosicky now legitimately be called a professional footballer and is Theo Walcott now regarded as much more than a regional-level 100m sprinter? Before all that trivial talk, the pod lands some huge *World Exclusives* – we’ll be telling you which Prem manager decides his starting line-up whilst strolling around an abandoned power station, which Glaswegian coach looks set to land a lead role in The Bodyguard Musical and which Magpies striker moonlights as a cocktail waitress. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/524422be-9d1e-65cc-9f99-d05a91f6a1df.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/524422be-9d1e-65cc-9f99-d05a91f6a1df.mp3 2311c4ae-4c0c-8903-a3a8-cee92008b5a1 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:25:23 GMT 00:38:03 Off The Post no Ep.26 Wheeler Dealin' Ah, the magic of the FA Cup. A weekend when we all remember the glory days of football. Hazy, sepia-tinged days when plucky minnows would score ludicrous own goals at Anfield and take it on the chin with good grace and a cheeky grin; when Stanley Matthews and his Stoke City compadres would grind out routine 2-0 wins near the freshly opened Gatwick Aerodrome; and when a rag-tag bunch of bodybuilders, basketball players and other tall/strong stereotypes from Stevenage could hold title contenders like Tottenham to an unlikely draw. Who said times have changed? Taking those rose tinted glasses off for just a moment, this week's pod speculates on how much of the waking day Harry “'Arry” Redknapp doesn't spend giving impromptu press conferences from his car window, there's an in depth feature on one-time (literally, just once) England marksman David Nugent, and more vocal stylings from pod pundit Paddy, a man surely destined to become Botswana's answer to Will Smith. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/0ffb66d7-ae5c-c076-d063-05edfebbaa33.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/0ffb66d7-ae5c-c076-d063-05edfebbaa33.mp3 c0e85d5b-b527-188a-832c-088ec6c0d920 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:58:20 GMT 00:42:02 Off The Post no Ep. 25 Big Mick R.I.P. While the rest of the world is still whipped up into a frenzy about all things Liverpool, the OTP pod tip-toes around the big issues and asks some truly pertinent questions: how can we replace the controversy-causing handshakes at the start of Premier League matches? Do Chelsea have a nasty dose of crabs? And, most importantly, where next for freshly sacked Big Mick McCarthy? Elsewhere, there's some fascinating and potentially fatal half time entertainment at Villa Park, a thrilling conversation about baked potatoes, and a final AfCoN roundup, which also contains your weekly lesson on the heritage and culture of Botswana. Try and refuse a handshake with that. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/f1a4a706-5091-a9c8-0e74-efea3ce23400.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/f1a4a706-5091-a9c8-0e74-efea3ce23400.mp3 4980cf23-24b9-acba-0089-969234a14ed7 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:09:21 GMT 00:48:21 Off The Post no Ep.24 Chelsea Choke The transfer window may have slammed shut last week, but someone left the OTP cage door open and we’re back to wreak more Premier League based audio havoc. So strap in as we ride the goals rollercoaster at Stamford Bridge whilst also taking in the delights of Tony Pulis’ technical wizardry (not in a footballing sense), the wardrobes of Sir Alex Ferguson and Chris Kamara, and why we all need to start paying a lot more attention to the Botswanan top flight. What’s that you say? You want some more? Then how does an interview with a man who was once the world’s youngest international manager and an in-depth ACON sweepstakes round-up tickle your pickle? Have some of that. http://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/545e937c-3acd-ea0b-5ade-5a9c6f7dcd88.mp3 podcast@offthepost.intosports,comedy,epl,premiership,football,soccerhttp://toepoke.hipcast.com/deluge/545e937c-3acd-ea0b-5ade-5a9c6f7dcd88.mp3 8f8d3776-d9be-cba4-ff91-3ada163f3dd6 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:04:43 GMT Off The Post no podcast@offthepost.into 3776db86-0b90-b304-1077-de5ee49de260 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:11:56 GMT Off The Post no podcast@offthepost.into 59e2889b-f83f-2ebf-87ac-37a96ee24e1f Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:40:20 GMT Off The Post no podcast@offthepost.into f5a819c3-4118-2c38-49d9-a9021220a7ea Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:26:55 GMT Off The Post no podcast@offthepost.into c221e6e5-49f2-142f-c8b1-ab7d311a92f3 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:41:14 GMT Off The Post no podcast@offthepost.into 35708c47-3af3-b223-7ac2-6778fe8947bb Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:12:14 GMT Off The Post no podcast@offthepost.into 4030e36e-46a4-a9ab-58c8-41519157eb63 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:15:14 GMT Off The Post no podcast@offthepost.into 5e3dc44b-35ed-6341-e4ca-839e7dc514ab Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:23:17 GMT Off The Post no podcast@offthepost.into e356fbc5-896e-02da-4e50-64990607a00c Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:39:11 GMT Off The Post no podcast@offthepost.into 7c75e712-a62e-36d9-a06b-c2e43868fd72 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:52:31 GMT Off The Post no podcast@offthepost.into Off The PostnonadultCoaxing nonsense from the footballing woodwork