Magic Spongers

PARTISAN ALERT: This article is quite partisan. "You might have beaten us lads, but that Ronaldo won't amount to much" Unfortu...

Joe Cole must be sweating ahead of the culling of seven from Fabio Capello’s party of 30. It has been a season to forget for the Chelsea pla...

If this was supposed to be the warm up game in which England proved they were ready to surpass expectations this summer, it disappointed. It...

At risk of overkill, this blog is turning its Sauron-like gaze away from Jose Mourinho to Louis van Gaal, the man who gave the Portuguese mo...

In a week that contained plenty of ‘surprises’ masquerading as surprises (Chelsea miss a penalty in a major final, a senior FA employee is t...

“Poverty wants much, but avarice, everything.” So said the Roman author Publilius Syrus. Fast-forward more than two millennia and the wise s...

As Wayne Rooney walks off with a hat-trick of domestic awards and Didier Drogba tries to squeeze his foot into his golden boot a la Cinderel...