Well now, when it comes to football, one man has for many years been the most noticeable, the most controversial, and occasionally the most successful blogger this country has ever produced. His pithy words and abrasive style make him as famous off the pitch as he is on it. This man is Escapini. "I love football. Football she's a cruel mistress. She's, she's more than a mistress. She's a wife, she's a mother, she's a daughter, she's an errant child. She's a… she's a… she can make you laugh, she make you cry. She can bring tears me eyes. She can bring blood to me shoulders. She can bring a kettle to the boil." "Cause football is about nothing, unless it's about something and what it is about, is football."

1 min readPublished 31 May 2010, 19:51

Premier League

A Keston Of Sport

No two ways about it, Maurice Keston is a force of nature. Only one person hasn’t heard of him and he’s a Japanese soldier living in an bunker 300 feet underground who doesn’t yet know that the war is over.

Maurice’s book, Superfan is an out and out must read.

It wouldn’t really matter who you supported. The tales are a delight and the if you like a read packed with celebrities, evocative of a time sadly gone by, then the odds are you’ll like Superfan.

We reviewed it HERE*. There are plans afoot to interview Maurice. Not by the Met, but by yours truly. It;s a question of timing. You see he appears to have no set pattern of putting his milk bottles out.

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