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 24 Oct 2010, 16:28

Manchester United Football Club

Man Of The Match – Versus Stoke

A game that in the normal course of events would hardly be of much consequence was, if you believe any of the bull and bluster of the last few days, propelled into being the make or break of Manchester United’s entire season.

Bottom line was that as expected United won as they are better at playing football than Stoke. Stoke seemed a bit sallow, a bit not quite with it. Accusations of fielding part time doormen and pipe fitters may have taken it’s toll, but it was in attack they looked particularly lackluster.

Ferguson was in improved form. Or at least substituting Gary Neville 6 seconds after he walked out for the second half made him laugh as TV viewers didn’t need a degree in lip reading to see Neville ask the boss, ‘You taking the p*ss?’ Well someone needed to send him off.

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