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 9 Jul 2010, 20:11

Chelsea Football Club

Done & Dusted. Whoo Hoo!

The Tottenham Hotspur grape vine is a ring a ding dinging* with the word that Joe Cole is very, very soon to be unveiled as a Tottenham player.

A few thoughts from me…

This guy was unable to command a place in Chelsea’s first team. Nobody else was genuinely interested in him. It was all smoke, mirrors and er.. is brinkmanship too flattering a word? Yes it bloody well is. I shan’t mention his contribution in South Africa as … And how much have we agreed to pay him?

On an upbeat note, Harry Redknapp has good form for rediscovering player’s form.

*Sincere apologies, I was listening to some Sinatra earlier and have morphed into Martin Crane.