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 Jul 2010, 18:10Updated 4 Jul 2010, 18:20

Premier League

Deals For A Striker & A Pair Of Defenders Close.

Some of this is brand new, some of it merely serves to reinforce what we already suspected.

This Diego Forlan thing is still very much a goer according to everyone. If he’s an improvement on the pitch will be decided if and when we sign him and he plays. If he’s an improvement in fan’s opinions, we can discuss this here by all means, but we’ll be running a poll on that specific issue in the morning.

Micah Richards is still ‘en route’ and I guess we have already discussed him at length …but the wild card is from Roger Morgan on Spurs Odyssey who throws the name of a chap called Pedro Geromel into the mix. A Brazilian playing for Köln. He’s 21 and no, I’ve never heard of him either.