''Offside'' is a

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bimonthly

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. The magazine takes its name from the football law of the same name.

History and profile

''Offside'' was started in March 2000. It is published by Offside Press AB six times a year but there are often an extra issue published in connection to larger events, such as the

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. The magazine had its headquarters in

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. Each edition of around 130 pages has three to five long articles of 10–30 pages and several shorter interviews and reports. The coverage of the articles include the whole world—from a

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match in

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, to the

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, to the lower divisions of Swedish football and to the fan culture around

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—and people that are or have written for Offside include

Simon Kuper Simon Kuper is a South African-British author. He writes about sports "from an anthropologic perspective." Kuper was born in Uganda of South African parents, and moved to Leiden in the Netherlands as a child, where his father, Adam Kuper, was ...

, Phil Ball,

Sid Lowe Simon James "Sid" Lowe (born 21 June 1976) is an English columnist and journalist. Born in Archway, London, and based in Madrid, he covers Spanish football for many publications, websites, television channels, radio stations, and football-relate ...

Åke Edwardson Åke Edwardson (born 10 March 1953 in Eksjö, Småland) is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and was previously a lecturer in journalism at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his ''Inspector Winter'' novels are set. Edwardson h ...

Peter Birro Peter Birro (born 19 July 1966 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish script writer, poet and musician. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Birro was an obscure poet who performed with the almost equally obscure Swedish band The Christer Petterssons (named aft ...

and

Thomas Bodström Thomas Lennart Bodström (born 9 April 1962) is a Swedish former politician of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He is also a former footballer, and is best remembered for representing Allsvenskan side AIK between 1987 and 1989. Thomas Bo ...

. The two editors of ''Offside'', Mattias Göransson and Tobias Regnell won the Swedish journalist prize

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in 2002 "with knowledge, love and feeling for the game, having moved the borders of sport journalism", and the magazine has been described as "

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for the 'intellectual supporter'". In 2011, ''Offside'' made an interview with the Swedish footballer Anton Hysén, in which he came out as gay. The interview received much attention in media around the world. ''Offside'' had an average circulation of 18,400 in mid-2005.

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