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 2 Sept 2010, 18:52Updated 13 Sept 2010, 16:29

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Sylvie Van Der Vaart, We Salute You…

Behind every great man, is a great woman. Unfortunately they don’t all look like Rafael Van Der Vaart’s ball and chain.

Voted Netherlands’ Sexiest Female in 2003, she soon after married The Lane’s latest Great White Hope. In 2008 she became a favourite judge on a German version of Britain’s Got Talent. And she’s not let that hold her back and has gone on to be a judge on the Fatherland’s version of Strictly Come Dancing.

And at 34-28-34, she’s only marginally less hot than the surface of the sun.