Marco Materazzi is an Italian centre back for Serie A side Internazionale. Not an untalented player, he has a reputation that if he employed it outside your average Yate’s Wine Lodge on a Saturday afternoon, we’d be talking about which prison he was in and not which team.
The perhaps dubious pinnacle of his notoriety came with ‘that’ incident against Zidane. Marco isn’t in this tournament’s squad list, but it’s unlikely we’ve seen the last of him.
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."
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