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 6 Dec 2010, 13:35

Liverpool Football Club

Liverpool Scouts Watching Palermo’s Shooting Star

News just in from Italy that Roy Hodgson wants up to date reports on stand out Slovenian, Josip Ilicic.

The Palermo midfielder is 22 and this season has been little shy of a revelation attracting interest from a few European sides with 6 goals in his last 13 games.

The player’s transfer value has risen rapidly in direct correlation to his emergence as a class act. His future may well not lie at Palermo, as he told reporters just last month, ‘”I’m not an important player for this team.”

His price tag should he move ought to be in excess of the £4m mark.