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 11 May 2010, 22:24

Manchester City Football Club

Bellamy Out – Twitter Boy In

This just in via a reverse charge ‘phone call from our man in a Mancunian massage palour.

The Manchester City machine trundles on through the night, despite the lack of Champions League football.

Enquiries have been made with a view to replacing the nutter with the putter aka Craig Bellamy.

The name in the frame is none other than the King Og The Beach Balls, Sir Darren Bent.

Notionally a failure at Tottenham despite his goal scoring record, the jewel in the Mackem crown could, if this goes anywhere, find himself considerably closer to boarding that plane to South Africa than his erstwhile Lilywhite team mate, Jerman Defoe.