Magic Spongers

"Go on then. One extra year." The verdict is in. File away Financial Fair Play (FFP) with the 'Fit and Proper Person' test...

Yaya Toure in happier times Just when you think football can’t possibly get any more ridiculous, along comes a story about a 31-year-ol...

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

"By my calculations, we are only about £100m away..." This week, Roberto Mancini moved into what was surely an unassailable p...

Two feet. Ball. Get over it.  There’s tackling and there’s tackling. Or something. Here’s Magic Spongers regular Dan Forman on tackling...

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

Andres Iniesta's cameo performance in The Illusionist Throwing the decent journalism rulebook out of the window (because when has...

So now we know. A player CAN be bigger than the manager in Manchester. Sir Alex Ferguson has spent the best part of a quarter of a century ...

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

"Why always me?" Over the past 10 days or so, the Premier League and its orbiting media bodies have seen fit to dispense with per...

"Get Wayne Bridge on if you're desperate you fuckers." “A man is known by the company he keeps,” goes the old adage. No less...

'If I can... just... get...the... *TWANG*' Much like being on a night out with Magic Spongers, the prevailing attitude towards the ...

Oh MAN UP So Mario Balotelli’s unhappy is he? What a massive shame. What a change from his normal sunny disposition, too. Truth be told, y...

Times in Manchester, they are a-changing. Sir Alex Ferguson has never before had to entertain the fact that his neighbours are not only get...

Before the start of Blackpool’s incredible dalliance with fame and fortune in the Premier League, Ian Holloway intimated that his side were...

In the summers between football seasons, most of us do similar stuff: go on holiday; enjoy beer gardens; pretend we don't care about tr...

"Yay! An election!" Breathe easily friends, as we are finally approaching the end of ‘ungainly election metaphor season’, a ghastl...

Blood. Thunder. Hammers. Tongs. Kitchen sinks. This season, verve and fervency have returned to Premier League derbies and, if anything, hav...

The term ‘kingmakers’ has been frequently used in the last couple of weeks, mainly in conjunction with the Liberal Democrats and Tottenham H...