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 28 Sept 2011, 08:29Updated 28 Sept 2011, 09:51

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Carlos Tevez Refusing To Play [The Videos]

First we had Carlos the Jackal. A Venezuelan terrorist currently serving a life sentence for murder on a moderately large scale. Anyone who wasn’t familiar with Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez before last night is now. And to listen to some he too is somehow evil incarnate my view is he’s an arrogant pup that the Barclays Premier League no longer needs.

Here is the footage. I can’t lip read Spanish, but it seems relatively conclusive.

What isn’t in doubt is Roberto Mancini’s opinion about what transpired (or didn’t). “He refused to go on the pitch.”

When asked did he want Tevez to stay he replied deftly, ‘No.’