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 13 Jul 2010, 20:00

Premier League

Gazza’s Last Stand?

Unless you’ve been living on Mars since he ended his playing career, you will be aware of the often all too public decline of Paul Gascoigne.

He will be mostly fondly remembered on these shores by Newcastle United and Tottenham fans for being a legend in both the Lilywhite and Barcode jerseys.

In recent weeks he ‘found’ himself in a car crash. It was yet another messy, dog’s dinner of a tale fueled by booze and stupidty.

Yet only a few days ago, Gazza eclipsed that stunt by turning up drunk at the crime scene of Raoul Moat.My thoughts aren’t really ‘what a silly/sad thing for him to do’, rather what’s next? Because whatever it is, the odds are it will end in unmitigated disaster.

Here’s the clip…