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 15 Dec 2010, 16:01Updated 15 Dec 2010, 16:08

Liverpool Football Club

Will Roy Bottle It With His Team Selection?

Liverpool go into this as firmer than firm favourites.

These are unsettling times at Anfield and Roy cannot be unaware that he will be under the microscope even for a game which ought to be meaningless, like this one. So will he opt for using this as a run out for the youngsters or will nerves get the better of him?

My guess is he’s emotionally fried managing this team and he will play a relatively strong side and hope to sub off the names safely as the goals go in, or FC demonstrate they aren’t really up to it.

2-0 is a respectable 11/2 a more conservative N’Gog to score first and that to be it, Liverpool win 1-0 is 16/1.

Fancy FC to stage a comeback? Liverpool to lead at Half Time but fail to win the game is 14/1.

What is nailed on is that Roy won’t have any ‘meaningless’ games anytime soon.