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 2 Nov 2010, 10:33

Chelsea Football Club

Football Faces That Really Want Slapping 3

Football easily brings as much pain as it does pleasure. I’m not talking about love and it’s diminishing returns here. I’m talking about the sheer rage and unmitigated fury that just hearing a player’s name can evoke within the most usually calm and balanced of normally rational, balanced individuals.

So this is the Tavern’s BARRED list Part 3. Now I appreciate we all have axes to grind, but do add your own as we are – like most awful landlords – constantly on the search for people to discriminate against!