Magic Spongers

Oh boy... It was most refreshing to see 2013 become the year in which football finally started to move away from the hysteria over mana...

'They'll never know it's me.' Fernando Torres looked at the screen, baffled. He blew out his cheeks, bemused. On the ...

The quietest man in football If anyone was in any doubt who the ladies and gentlemen of the fourth estate’s favourite football manage...

"Yes, I WILL be doing this every week." Close season transfer speculation/gossip/bullshit, for me, reached its zenith in the ...

Talk about this. Lots. The moment ballboys jumped the shark, by Magic Spongers regular John Dobson Something happened. Here, look at...

"This is going to work out REALLY well." God knows what Chelsea fans must be thinking about the Belfast flag protests but goi...

"I was asking YOU if you thought I'D said merry Christmas to YOU!" With (probably) our last post of 2012, we couldn't...

"I COULDN'T CARE LESS!!!" Good news everyone! We don’t have to go and watch rugby! Football’s ok again! That was fun, w...

'[Insert bad things here].' The darker side of football has been rearing its ugly head for so long now that its neck must be i...

YEAH BYE Goodbye England’s rose, May you ever grow in our hearts, You turned offending everyone Into a noble art.

"We're not bad, us" Athletic Bilbao are a delight. ATHLETIC Bilbao, lest we forget. Seeds sown in the shipyards of Sunderland...

Says it all really doesn't it Not since the abbreviation LOL was created by a tosser have three consecutive letters riled me as much a...

Since time immemorial, Uefa’s financial fair play rules have been skulking around in the shadows of polite chat in football circles. It was ...

"HOW MANY defeats?" Over to Spongers' own Rob MacDonald, who couldn't even manage to stick to the blueprint and just writ...

"HIS KNEES AREN'T AS BRAVE AS MINE" Though one series has ended and another since begun, this corker from Sam Macrory deserv...

"Well this sucks" Somewhere in the Mediterranean last night, a Russian billionaire strode on to the deck of his $1bn super-yacht...

My intention is to ruin everything ...and here's the other half of Magic Spongers Adam Bushby Liverpool 1 v 0 Chelsea: Champions...

Here we go: the difficult second podcast. This week: we discuss the state of refereeing in the game, the tightening bottoms at the Premier L...

“Fifty million quid means that you are not entitled to much in the way of allowances,” asserted the Guardian’s Richard Williams, a day after...

Are titles won at Christmas? The short answer is: ‘Only if you are Manchester United or Chelsea (and even then it isn’t guaranteed).’ Flying...