You can fool some of the people...

GAA 1, Soccer 0 — that’s the scoreline when it comes to knowing a merry prankster when they see one.

Ten years ago, Michael Nugent joined forces with journalist Sam Smyth to write the 'Dear Me' letters, a series of spoofs in the style of the great Henry Root, which elicited all kinds of unintentionally comic responses from the great and the not so good.

Now Nugent, by his own description "an incurable supporter of Bohemians and Leeds United" is there any other kind? is back with a solo run, 'Absurdly Yours', published by Blackwater Press.