High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Offside was a Scottish comedy football television show aired on BBC One Scotland and was presented by Scottish Football journalist Tam Cowan. The programme was axed in 2007, for unknown reasons. Only an Excuse? star Jonathan Watson also contributed to the show, previously producing the Only a Wee Excuse section of the show which was replaced by the "Week that Wisnae" sketch for the last series, this was essentially a simplified version of its predecessor.