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 15 Nov 2010, 15:11Updated 15 Nov 2010, 16:14

Chelsea Football Club

Footballers & Their Hookers

Some footballers seem to be unable to live ordinary lives with any degree of ease.

Whereas you an I can only dream of what we might do if we were to earn a fraction of the monies they do and think of houses, holidays and tellys as big as a supporting wall can cope with, their primary concern appears to be hookers, prostitutes and all manner of fleshy delights.

Here then is a tribute to those men who shook off the shackles of humdrummary and smirked in the face of the flamin’ mundane. Rooney, Allinson, Bosnich and Ribery here’s to you and to having to occasionally pay for it.

Click on the hooker to start the gallery!