By Escapini1 min readPublished 18 Mar 2010, 13:34

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This is a hatchet and THIS is a hatchet job.

For those of you gifted in the art of reading you will hopefully join me in pointing out that nowhere in the piece does Adel actually say that he wishes he joined Arsenal.

I have no issue with a player being depressed at thought of playing Bolton and Stoke. I have no issue with a player wanting more, wanting to better himself. Where I take exception is a journalist shy of a sensation story twists what he does have to deliberately mislead the reader.

So whilst the more feeble brained amongst you get all shirty and start calling for young Taarabt to be deported, do understand you’ve been wound up by a Gooner friendly rag that is barred from White Hart Lane.

Escapini

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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