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 26 Jul 2010, 22:11

Aston Villa

Keane, Bentley & Jenas All On Offer To Secure ….’Him’

Harry Redknapp went on record this very afternoon saying that he wasn’t prepared to be held to ransom in a bidding war that wasn’t of his own making. If Manchester City wish to be held to ransom, then good luck to them, was essentially the message.

But based upon information emerging this afternoon that is still very much still the case, but Harry is quite unsurprisingly, prepared to trade horses in order to get his man.

Jenas & Keane particularly are so despised, even Levy, even Daniel Levy himself knows that Champions League aspirations preclude these players’ vanities.

At this stage, I’d swap either player for a … a break.