Textbook footballerisms from the boy Defoe. Mustn’t take the foot off the gas nor anything for granted; but each game as it comes. One can mock but at least he said something. The BBC went round his mother’s the morning after the game. ‘Speechlessness’ obviously runs in the family. And I expected her to have a bigger telly.
What was it Keegan said, something or other was just around the corner? It was just he didn’t know where the corner was. Halcyon days. Anyway, here’s the old clipperty clip…
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."
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