Adventures of the Crumpsall Kid

Born in the shadow of a dark, satanic cream cracker factory, Mike Harding struggled against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and the catapults and half-bricks of the Black Hand Gang to find himself launched into stardom when he won the egg-and-spoon race at St Anne’s Crumpsall Junior School.

For a while he was the leader of the Crumpsall Father Christmas and Tooth Fairy Cult ...