March Football: Tommy Tuchel Clocks On

[Lofty]

Transfer fees going insane over the last 10 years seems to have ushered in an era of players running down their contracts to move on a free on mega wages, rather than seeing the mega-money go to club, and more power to them.

Wenger right again

[Jimmy Floyd]

A small recovery in prospect for the lost art of good Brazilian player names (and with it their World Cup hopes after 20+ years). People like 'Andre' are holding them back and need to go, but Bento in goal works well and Joelinton is a beauty especially when you say it as Brazilians do (zhwellinton). 'Endrick' is also excellent.

Still work to do - Joao Gomes coming off the bench is far too Portugal, and I'm not having an outfield 'Ederson' whatsoever - but I'm not ruling out their chances just yet.

[Ben]

I didn't realise Matheus Cunha was so well travelled, despite still being only 25. I thought Atletico plucked him straight out of the favelas.

[wullie]

I liked when Brazilian players were going so far away from classic names they were almost Last Of The Summer Wine with players like Arthur, Allan and Compo Souza.

[Ben]

Compo

[John Arne]

Fred

(Freeedjjji)

[Jimmy Floyd]

Look at this bloke Lucas Beraldo on the bench. He would be twice the player if he was just 'Beraldo'. Who needs Lucas? Every prick in the world is called Lucas.

If Pele was around nowadays he'd probably be called Edson Junior or something. Decline.

[Mike]

There's a fierce meltdown going on about this Alexander-Arnold thing. Could they not have just sold him 18 months ago when he didn't sign the new deal they presumably offered him?

It feels very much like a none match going fan meltdown.

[Pepe]

Djalminha

[Shindig]

Grafite and Dinamite were the last two good ones I can remember.

[Lewis]

Wenger right again

I figured that fees going mental would essentially negate them, leaving us with rugby-like contracts where people either signed for three years or ten years.

[niko_cee]

No Chris Wood for Forest.

A trip to Wembley beckons.

[Gray Fox]

It feels like we've not had Barclays in ages.

I for one can't wait 'til we get back so we can have Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher talking Trent, instead of Salah for an hour before build up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Fulham-Palace on Saturday is a seismic prospect in these parts. Barclays news relegated to chip paper (triple-cut hand-cooked chips costing £12.95, but still).

[niko_cee]

On the slightly tenuously related to football and chips front, Ed Sheeran was BANG ON about London chippies being shite and Danny Dyer can fuck off crying into his pie and mash if he thinks any different.

[Lewis]

I had some London pie 'n' mash last year and it was awful. Shit pie, shit mash, and the less said about the 'liquor' the better.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bosh.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pie and mash is just romanticism of shit old working class tropes, like when my old man pretends to still prefer tinned luncheon meat to the range you can now get in a supermarket.

[randomlegend]

I had some London pie 'n' mash last year and it was awful. Shit pie, shit mash, and the less said about the 'liquor' the better.

Yeah I've seen one or two of the famous places on a couple of YouTube food channels and it doesn't look remotely tempting.

Good pie and good mash are banging though.

[SvN]

Orange chips make the black country the supreme area for chippies.

[Ben]

There's a tremendous pie 'n mash place in Whitby but it's still just pie 'n mash. Nice to have once every few years but that'll do.

And obviously being close to Whitby, everywhere else I've sampled out of the region is useless.

[Dquincy]

Mash will always be the poorer cousin to chips when discussing potatoes.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd take the best mash over the best chips. The watery snot they serve in pie and mash shops is not mash, it's just what people could afford in about 1910.