Magic Spongers

When art doesn't imitate life in the slightest Herculean achievements, long forgotten, make for perhaps the best stories. Here'...

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...

'This is going to be a piece of pi- oh' Following the undignified scenes at the weekend (we haven’t heard ‘you’re getting sacke...

'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 ...

"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...

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

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

Apples and onions Literally Corner... LIVE A Gennaro Gatusso role play in which Rob impersonates a lady (poorly). It can only be our att...

"Am I allowed to go back to Liverpool now?" Spurs season ticket holder Hugh Lindley makes his debut for Magic Spongers Officia...

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...

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

John Terry has become the human equivalent of Millwall FC. ‘No-one likes me and I don’t care,’ he pouts. There’s a reason why people don’t l...

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...