The magic is as good as gone

We hear much about the magic of sport, but after a week like this might it be worth reflecting on what has become of that other great sport of magic?

Admit it; there was a time you liked it… not a lot, but you liked it. Daniels, Copperfield, Penn & Teller. Blaine before he pulled off the ultimate trick and managed to make a virtue and a living out of sitting around doing nothing. Like Steve Harper.

Maybe the tricksters’ boom came in the 1990s, when whistle-blowers like the Masked Magician were also operating a thriving sideshow trying to expose them. Now the magic is as good as gone. But the tricksters must yearn now for the glory days when people wondered how they did it.