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 5 Nov 2011, 06:55

Liverpool Football Club

The Comic Strip History of Liverpool FC!

Wonderfully hand drawn by former Roy of the Rovers and Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly illustrator Bob Bond, Liverpool! brings the history of one of England’s biggest and most illustrious football clubs to life in the true spirit of the great British football comics.

From the formation of the club in 1892 (when Everton left Anfield in a row over beer!), follow the rise of the Reds in glorious comic strip with every shot into the top corner from Toshack, Dalglish, Fowler or Torres, accompanied by a great big WOOSH! and witty speech bubbles from the crowd.

Full colour throughout , this brilliant book will appeal to Liverpool mad lads and Dads alike.