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 31 Jan 2011, 09:00

Liverpool Football Club

Liverpool, Spurs & Even Birmingham Chasing €7.1M Marksman

The class act that is Guillem Balague is suggesting that there has been a genuine interest in the Trabzonspor striker Teófilo Gutiérrez.

Now we know that Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has ruled out the inward transfer of a striker this window but it would be optimistic to believe that the problem at White Hart Lane is going to solve itself.

Gutiérrez is 25 and a €7.1 million price tag makes the former Junior Barranquilla forward an affordable back up to whoever is left standing as their main striker come midnight tonight.

Birmingham have also scouted the Colombian and it is probably far more likely to see him end up at St Andrews as the main attraction.