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 4 Jun 2010, 10:03Updated 4 Jun 2010, 14:00

Premier League

Tottenham’s Italian Job: Spurs Swoop For Striker

Unconfirmed reports are flooding in of three Mini Coopers belting around the streets of Genoa. The wheel-men are thought to be Joe ‘Jump-leads’ Jordan, Harry ‘Jelly’ Redknapp and Daniel ‘Legs’ Levy.

No, they’re not lost. Their target is none other than Sampdoria’s goal machine, Giampaolo Pazzini. Pazzini found the net 30 times last season and is unsurprisingly a sought after commodity. Juventus have already been sniffing around…

Word is that the Blucerchiati Firm are no pushover when it comes to negotiating and ‘Legs’ may have met his match.