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 4 Dec 2010, 20:02Updated 21 Jan 2013, 10:10

Liverpool Football Club

Spurs Play The Waiting Game As Liverpool’s £10M Bid Is Turned Down

So as one of the world’s most unsuccessful player turned manager reigns lumbers dragging poor old Ipswich Town ever onwards to failure…

Word is emerging from our man at the bar in Mannings this afternoon is that Connor Wickham is very close to becoming a Tottenham player.

It’s no secret that the talented and well developed Wickham has been scouted relentlessy by Tottenham. But what has emerged is that Liverpool apparently sought to hijack the long mooted N17 move with a saucy £10M bid. If this was pre Roy or after, we do not know, my suspicion is …before.

But sources close to barmaid’s apron tell the Tavern that the boy didn’t fancy a move to Anfield.

It wasn’t the money.