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 Jul 2010, 16:03Updated 24 Jul 2010, 17:20

Manchester City Football Club

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This is good.

A star studded contingent of City boys including Joe Hart, Emmanuel Adebayor, Micah Richards, Dedryck Boyata, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Wayne Bridge and Kolo Toure made their way to the USA, specifically Manhattan on Thursday to make this Umbro launch.

No Bellamy and no Given, I see… but then again, it can be easily argued that a number of other players are also missing. The reason for mentioning Craig Bellamy and Shay Given was an intriguing comment posted on Bluemoon this week saying that both players were to be excluded in advertising materials produced by the Club.

The suggestion being of course that if they do play at Eastlands next season, then they’ll be using the away dressing room.