Richarlison Interview - Daily Telegraph

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  1. Luther Bassett

    Luther Bassett Reservist

    Top sport story on Telegraph online is 'Richarlison - Exclusive Interview'. My, my.
     
  2. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

  3. barker

    barker Academy Graduate

    Great article - he's destined to be a legend.
     
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  4. hornetboy1

    hornetboy1 First Team Captain

    wow...his English is coming along.
     
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  5. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Really good read, and it sounds like he has his head screwed on right.
     
  6. sydney_horn

    sydney_horn Squad Player

    The more I read about him the more I love this guy!
     
  7. IRB

    IRB THe artist formally know as ImRonBurgundy?

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  8. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    Also the first time he smiled (on the pitch, anyway).

    Great guy
     
  9. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Great read, legend in the making.

    Didn't realise he was mates with Luiz and Willian.
     
  10. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Probably going to tap him up for Chelsea then...
     
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  11. Aberystwyth_Hornet

    Aberystwyth_Hornet Squad Player

    I briefly followed Avai due to a sweepstake. Can't believe they passed him up - no wonder they got relegated
     
  12. BigRossLittleRoss

    BigRossLittleRoss First Team

    Has this **** been sold for 50mill yet .
     
  13. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    It is an interesting read but this caught my eye:

    I'm assuming that this is journalistic bollox as, nowadays, footballers diets are strictly controlled with them actually taking meals home from the training ground?
     
  14. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    This is a regular thing. Our food here is very highly processed and very different for people coming from developing countries. I have known many people take a long time to get used to it. Often the initial diet of someone arriving here will be only "safe" things that they are familiar with such as pizza, spaghetti and hamburgers.

    This reminds me of a story from a Cuban girl I know who married a frenchie and moved to Paris. She hated it there. Absolutely detested it. I was talking to her on the phone and to cheer her up I said "well at least the food must be OK there. The frogs are famous for their chow.." but she said no and that it was awful.

    She said her new husband had taken her to a frenchie party and although there was loads of food, none of it was edible apart from a great big chocolate cake that was there in the middle of the table. At least there was that she could eat. So she got a big slice of it and bit into it and it was made of the most bitter chocolate you can imagine that nobody could every possibly eat. Absolutely disgusting.

    She went to the toilets to spit it out and have a good cry.
     
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  15. Meh!

    Meh! Pre-Dictator

    I've got something he should fear - he's just been added to my fpl team.

    Has been known to end players careers.
     
  16. lowerrous

    lowerrous First Team

    Richie needs to be giving some tips over to Troy on how one can lose weight from just eating hamburgers...
     
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  17. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    Seems strange that someone who picks up people for using “guys” as sexist and inappropriate happily uses the term “frogs” !??
     
  18. reids

    reids First Team

    Not scared of facing Chelsea as he had a gun pointed at him? Guess he's forgetting that Alonso literally murdered someone. I'd be bricking it.
     
  19. Chumlax

    Chumlax Squad Player

    Ahhhbaababaaababababa watch out there Sonny Jim, manslaughtered someone.:rolleyes:
     
  20. J.B

    J.B First Team

    I love him
     
  21. Your Cuban friend sounds like a 4 year old who will only eat ready salted crisps and spaghetti hoops.
     
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  22. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Why? Because they didn't like French food?

    Maybe you wouldn't like Cuban food at first if you went to live there.
     
  23. Indeed, I was censored for jokily using the word d**oes for people of hispanic origin. Where are you Meister?
     
  24. I probably would; I would certainly not turn my nose up at all 'Cuban Food'. Besides, which 'French Food' are you referring to? Coq au Vin? Chicken Chasseur? Boeuf Bourgignonne? Steak and chips? Any of the 300 odd AOC cheeses? Tartiflette or Baekhof from Alsace? Bouillabaisse from Marseille? Raclette from the Alps? Limousin beef? Couscous from Algeria and Morocco? Normandy salt meadow lamb? Crepes and Galettes from Brittany? French Pizzas are generally better than Italian ones. Fantastic produce in supermarkets and markets.

    Still, Frogs.
     
  25. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    To be fair to @Clive_ofthe_Kremlin, going on holiday and "trying" the local food is a completely different thing to "living" (and eating the local food).

    [ANECDOTE] It took quite a while to get used to eating Lithuanian food. Even after 10 years there was still some stuff that I couldn't stomach.
     
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  26. Godfather

    Godfather bricklayer extraordinaire

    Soft white fat ingested, air injected, half baked English bread .... disgusting.

    In fact English supermarket food is something I will never miss, and your restaurants are not much better.
     
  27. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player


    I bet you wouldn't. You're not used to it. Cuban food is bland and greasy. They eat things like fried pig's tails and shark. Okra and tamales. Yam and Cassava. African stews with whole pig's heads floating in them. There's far less (if any) colouring and preservatives, which is what I meant by the food being way more processed here.

    She (and I) were referring to ALL French food - you might as well say all non-Cuban food. It's just the same for Cubans (or indeed Brazilian wingers) arriving here with English food. I recall when Cifriana first arrived and liked very little indeed - she ordered melon in a restaurant and was distraught at what appeared in front of her, which didn't resemble any melon she'd ever seen.

    It's OK you and other Billy Britain Brexiteers bellowing on insensitively about wonderful Aberdeen Angus Beef, Cornish Pasties and Yorkshire Puddings, but just because they are recognised by gourmands as being great doesn't mean that someone who has never come across them before, nor experienced their particular taste before, will instantly adore them.

    Such attitudes betray an implicit belief in the superiority of every aspect of "western" culture over that of developing countries. I'm sure in the same way that Donald Trump thinks that the American Cheeseburger represents the very epitome of world cuisine.
     
  28. vic-rijrode

    vic-rijrode First Year Pro

    So all "English bread" is disgusting? So all "English supermarket food" is something you won't miss? All restaurants in England are "not much better" are they. I can tell you I have had disgusting meals in many countries whose gourmet reputations are high - France and Italy being prime examples - is all French food terrible and Italian bread inedible therefore?

    Living in England, I eat nothing but tasteless over-processed mush do I?

    When was the last time you visited an average supermarket in any town in England? Have you tried Waitrose or Marks & Spencer as opposed to Tesco or Budgens? Did you miss the range of breads on offer? Did you look at the fresh fruit and veg? The ingredients from around the world that you could use? Sure French hyper- and supermarkets are excellent for what they offer, but despite their size, it is predominantly French food they offer - try buying arborio rice in most of them or ingredients for a decent curry.

    Sorry Godfather, I have enjoyed much of what you contribute to this forum, but it makes my blood boil at the usual taunting of "English food".
     
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  29. Billy Brexiteer! Aw, Shucks!
    (Don't tell ZZ or Meister, I'll never hear the end of it.)

    ******** of course - just because a country is developing doesn't mean it's cuisine is inferior - India, Pakistan, Morocco, Thailand, Malaysia; it's only the yoke of communism that strangles the taste buds, reduces cuisine to function devoid of taste and savour. I remember a travel article in the Observer just as the Iron Curtain came down, of a restaurant in Bucharest where the starter was 'beige vegetable in brown liquid' and the main was 'grey meat in same brown liquid.'
     
  30. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    I think the quality and variety of English food has improved immensely over the past 30 or 40 years or so - thanks to immigration.
     
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  31. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Agreed. Now if someone could successfully import what I ate in Singapore then I'd eat nothing else as long as I lived.
     
  32. Godfather

    Godfather bricklayer extraordinaire

    I get your point, we have some great traditional recipes and believe me my mother was a great cook in the days of butchers and greengrocers selling unadulterated, hormone/ antibiotic free meat and non GM, sometimes "wonky" but tasty fruit and veg. Here in the outskirts of Nuremberg I can drive ten minutes to a village farm butcher that does his own slaughtering and is all certified bio and what's more there's many more like him and the markup is minimal. The same with veg, Germans are much fussier when it comes to quality ... you can stick your "taste the difference" Waitrose and M&S rubbish where the sun don't shine, it's mostly the same crap just made to look pretty with slightly more of the good ingredients. Bread; when British bakers start selling bread by weight regardless of size I'll believe you but I've always preferred the dense, flavoursome brown breads I can get over here unless I particularly want a hand baked ciabatta (pic) for the next day (it's too soft when fresh).

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  33. vic-rijrode

    vic-rijrode First Year Pro

    It sounds as though you have not visited the UK recently. I am surprised that you seem to be spouting the same cliched, prejudiced nonsense about "English food" as many otherwise intelligent people I met on the Continent during my business career who had never even been to the UK.

    I, too, can visit many local farms and buy the same bio or organic meat, fruit and veg that you mention. There is a Farmer's Market held in my town where I can buy bread that looks (and presumably tastes) like your example, including "dense, flavoursome, brown breads" from specialist bakers and many "hand-baked"offerings including ciabatta and focaccia. There is also a specialist cheese monger who has around 200 different cheeses, both English and French. Incidentally there are now more English cheese varieties than French, amazingly.

    We have a new Aldi supermarket (German-owned as you are aware) which offers a decent quality of food but by no means outstanding - just cheaper. It used to concentrate on German-produced food but now trumpets British quality.

    There are also at least 5 delis in town that sell all kinds of "real" food - you just have to look. As for Waitrose and M & S food being rubbish - it's no more rubbish than many a French or German supermarket and much better than most Spanish supermarkets where the fruit and veg is surprisingly pretty ordinary, presumably because so much better quality is exported. When you talk about ingredients, are you referring to "ready meals"? If so then I eat very few of these - and have found ready meals on the Continent to be of a lower standard generally than at home.

    Do not confuse the average Tesco customer trudging around piling pre-prepared curries, chinese, pasta meals into their trolley with everyone in England, please. There is just as much excellent quality food around if people are prepared to look for it, which I am.

    Back to Rich, who I have no doubt will soon find food in England that will excite him - and I don't mean Nando's!
     
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  34. wfcSinatra

    wfcSinatra Predictor Choker 14/15

  35. I've lived and worked in Germany several times over the years (around Essen and Koln) and I can say with doubt there is nothing special about the food there, the supermarket stuff tastes exactly the same as the supermarket stuff here; and the fresh local produce there tastes exactly the same as it does here from a farmers market or a farm shop.
     

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