Magic Spongers

'Two plus two equals HARRY FOR ENGLAND' More bewildering news from the world of autobiographical serialisation as the greates...

'And what have you ever won?'   There's nothing like the red tops for shedding a bit of a perspective on a situation. We ...

NOT SO FAST SUNSHINE What better way to prepare for a return to the blogging arena by opening with a piece written by someone else? No...

'What competition?' Handing you over to a man who has obviously read the Magic Spongers blueprint - filing a piece months late - h...

Redknapp: making like-for-like changes since 1983  Unless you were drunk, buried or temporarily without a head this weekend, you’ll know t...

Apologies for the week-long hiatus on these fair pages. We’ve been busy searching out living rooms full of families and then going right up ...

Despite the cold snap outside and the hour and a half commute I felt cheery this morning. Chipper even. Nothing warms a Magic Sponger’s coc...

No, this isn’t an article about a ‘90s children’s programme about a gobshite parrot. If you wanted a reason, one massive reason, a reason s...

This plastic pitch stuff is a right old bru-ha-ha, isn’t it? ‘It’s not an excuse’, harrumphed Harry Redknapp, before going on the claim th...