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 25 May 2010, 22:16Updated 25 May 2010, 22:23

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Hardly earth shattering, hardly anyone’s exclusive but I felt it worth sharing.

A part of me if not quite depressed, is certainly deflated by the news. I must confess that I was one of those fantasists that somehow envisioned the boy Adel as part of the White Hart Lane ‘New World Order’.

Word in from our man currently damp proofing a Kilburn tattoo parlor is that as of tea time yesterday, QPR are currently in stage 19 of a 327 part process of negotiation with Levy Inc. May the force be with ’em.