Quotes of the week

Sunday 11th April 2010

“This guy's a dead ringer for Messi."

- Maple Tree's #8 out speaks out. Fair comment, Banter's captain had a decent game to be fair, banterfc.com didn't know it was that good though.

Sunday 4th April 2010

“Where's the ball? Someone get it, it's quite important. It's probably even more important than me. It's hard to believe anything is more important than me, isn't it? But it is."

- Ben Doc, another to add to his collection as he wittered away to himself as the second game against Crown became stalled.

Sunday 21st March 2010

“You're surrounded by glass, mate. And you shouldn't throw stones."

- Ben Doc, quick as you like as Woodmansterne's fat striker calls Wuker 'fat'.

Sunday 7th March 2010

[Having watched Baird switch from left wing to right]
“Let him do it, he's left footed anyway."

- The cry from one Santos player. Quite a compliment for young David, there. Though I'm not sure he knows the difference between his left and right anyway.

Sunday 21st February 2010

"You should be booked for wearing them gloves, mate. Sort it out."

- Hughesdog tells the Kurdish player how he feels about his leather gloves.

Sunday 14th January 2010

"If I have to give a penalty against you lot, it'll be the worst day of my life."

- Rob 'Ron Fintan' Stewart, approximately 8 minutes before awarding the oppositon a penalty.

Sunday 24th January 2010

Tino: "Why do refs check boots before the game?
Doc: "In case there's any dangerous studs.
Tino: "I am a dangerous stud."

Our resident Irishman there, and he aint wrong.

Sunday 3rd January 2010

"Luke, use your feet."

Rob 'Ron Fintan' Stewart said it without even a hint of irony as a one-on-one goes agonisingly past the big man in training.

Sunday 22nd November 2009

Portland player: "Who's talkin' to you?"
Cling Bak: "Well, you are, apparently."

Banter's captain responds to what is historically the most stupid question of all time during confrontation, just behind: "What are you looking at?"

Sunday 8th November 2009

"That'll be 8 then Baird, well done. But then 8 is also your mental age."

- Cling Bak reminds Baird of his yellow card fine and also his stupidity.

Sunday 25th October 2009

"That lot had two good players with two good moves. But that's two more things than we've got at the moment."

- Brownie shares his disappointment following defeat to Portland. Though that actually sounds like four more things than Banter had on the day.

Sunday 11th October 2009

"I think I'll be giving my man of the match vote to Brownie. He added me on Facebook in the week so it seems only fair. Vidic added me, too, but his request was after... So he'll get my vote next week."

- Ben Doc clarifies what's important to him in his teammates performances.

"Oi, twat! It doesn't count!"

- A slur from the unlikeliest of sources, after Madras had a goal disallowed. It was Ridders.

Sunday 4th October 2009

"Come on boys, we're still in this!"

- Brownie, announces to all that we're doing just fine whilst leading 9-2.

Sunday 27th September 2009

"Oooh, Tommy. You can tell he's been watching 'Dan Wilkes' Soccer Skills' on DVD. He's probably read the book, too."

- A substituted Wilkes is not afraid to tell everyone where his teammate got his silky skills from.

Quotes from 2008/09 here.