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 6 Jan 2011, 19:42Updated 7 Jan 2011, 17:43

Liverpool Football Club

Comolli Recommends £10M Centre Back

Damien Comolli identified German star Per Mertesacker before Christmas.

Liverpool’s on the pitch issues are well documented, however this could well be the class of player the aid reviving their fortunes. Mertesacker has a good pedigree and for Liverpool fans would surely be better received that the likes of Paul Konchesky.

Mertesacker appeared briefly last summer on Arsene Wenger’s radar but at that time Bremen were still very much a Champions League side and were possibly a little more hesitant to trade