Which players would be the most fun to go for a pint with? A new episode of Fantasy Five-A-Side ‘investigates’

Have you ever debated which Premier League footballers would be most fun to go for a pint with? Hopefully not, because that’s precisely what we’ve been talking about on the latest episode of 3 Added Minutes’ brand new TV series, Fantasy Five-A-Side.

Debuting on Shots! TV – that’s freeview channel 276 – this Friday evening at 20:25 BST, the latest episode of our show sees 3AM columnist Jason Jones and I arguing over who would make a five-a-side team, selected solely on how much fun they’d be to have a beer with.

Would you want a chance to inspect Erling Haaland up close and personal, or perhaps get some fashion tips from Dominic Calvert-Lewin? Could you handle a night on the town with Jack Grealish? What would happen once Harry Maguire cracked open a cold one? We discuss all these crucial issues and more on their way to building their perfect five-a-side team.

Don’t worry if you can’t make it on Friday evening, by the way, because the episode will be repeated over the weekend on Shots! TV or you can watch it online by heading to the Shots! website with the help of this very link here.

And in case you need a quick taste of the kind of informed, educated and carefully-researched gibberish you can expect from 3 Added Minutes’ Fantasy Five-A-Side, then you can watch an exclusive clip at the top of this very page, as Jason tries to explain to me why Jordan Pickford would make a better drinking buddy that Aston Villa’s World Cup winning goalkeeper and all-round psychopath Emi Martínez.

Enjoy, and don’t forget to check back for a new episode from 3 Added Minutes every weekend, or to keep coming back here for some of the sharpest and most insightful football writing on the internet.