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 4 Oct 2011, 09:32

Arsenal Football Club

Breaking News: SKY Football In Pubs “Contrary To EU Law”

Pub landlady Karen Murphy has won her European Court battle against the use of a foreign TV decoder to screen games.

The European Court of Justice has judged that an exclusive system of licences for the broadcasting of Premiership football across the European Union that currently prevents bars broadcasting games was essentially, ‘contrary to EU law’.

‘The screening in a pub of football-match broadcasts containing protected works requires the authorisation of the author of those works. Protected works could include the opening video sequence or the Premier League anthem, which is a matter for copyright.”