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 25 Jan 2011, 20:52Updated 26 Jan 2011, 08:28

Arsenal Football Club

Andy Gray Diary Pages Found In A London Litter Bin

The Transfer Tavern for want of something better to do has been avidly following the dramatic events surrounding the Face Of Football, Andy Gray.

The events that have unfolded over the past 72 hours have divided opinion. Some see Gray as misogynist dinosaur – others believe the world is now a Politically Correct circus. But what does seem to unite both factions is that the world won’t miss Andy Gray.

He was a man with a head so big it had it’s own gravitational pull. But what went on in that mind? What of the inner sexist? In an astonishing revealing 3 pages of his personal diary, we can for the very first time get a true sense of what Being Andy Gray was like.

Discovered by one of our leading reporters who also happens to work part time as a Refuse Consultant for a the London borough of Knightsbridge, we felt obligated to share these pages covering 3 days in the life of the Face Of Football.