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 8 Jun 2010, 10:13

Premier League

Spurs Set For Israeli Striker Snatch

The chap’s name is Assulin.

He’s 19 and a product of the much respected Barcelona Acadamy. My first concern would have to be does he have capacity for booze that Giovanni Dos Equis had? We are Tottenham; we have standards and we have expectations.

How likely is all this? Well, the report comes from the Spanish press and is undeniably a piece of engineering on behalf of his agent, Pini Zahavi. However, this isn’t to say this tale lacks substance, as Tottenham have genuinely scouted the lad. Rather old Pini wants a buyer and is merely fanning the flames.