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 Jun 2010, 13:58

Manchester City Football Club

City Negotiating For Tottenham Talisman

Why am I suddenly humming the theme tune to the Flintstones? Ah, I think I have it.

The Manchester City’s Bluemoon forum is running with a ball marked ‘We’re in for Jenas’ written across it’s middle.

Is there any truth in this? Let us dearly hope so. He has epitomized the nearly man. Always threatening rarely delivering. Running around, looking committed, tongue out, hands on hips, lateral passes, back passes, passes to the opposition.

God I really came to loathe him. The talisman of so much that has been wrong at Tottenham.