The Banter Flag (what the hell is a ‘banter flag’, anyway? A rude, talking flag?) is back and it’s excited to have David Villa in Melbourne soon. But something in a certain press release has caught the team’s attention.
Jordan Lim (JL): We’ll, it’s a Friday and look at us, snubbed from the FFV gold medal night, rugged up in this hut in the woods with nothing left to live for.
Mark Gojszyk (MG): Sean should have pulled some strings with Grima and co. I haven’t seen such a snub since the Essendon best & fairest night.
Sean Elicott (SE): You may need some performance enhancing substances to lift your banter game, Mark.
MG: Oi! Well in my spare time I devised a new image for the Banter Flag. What you guys think?
SE: It’s so bad that it’s somehow… so good. Majestic.
JL: Oh my days. Frame it next to my Picasso piece. Anyway, what’s on the agenda? We could talk about Victory women winning again, but we’d be sounding like a broken record.
MG: True, apart from the early slip up against Newy, they’ve looked good. Funnily enough they concede one goal and lose a game, yet concede three and two goals in the next games and win!
SE: Curious fact. Speaking of curious, how about Melbourne City’s press release saying David Villa would be here next Tuesday for the A-League launch, which gives him enough time to train with his teammates… for a game on Saturday.
MG: Good point. Though he probably really only needs one training session to get into the swing of things, such a professional he is. Though that’s what we all thought about Harry Kewell before he came to Victory…
SE: Snap! Well I just want to re-live this moment:
MG: Look at you, all humble and chuffed. Was it love at first sight?
JL: I see your caption was ’cause sometimes journalists like to be interviewed too’. What questions did she ask you, Sean?
SE: Ha, I wish. you can read the interview here 😉 (SHAMELESS PLUG)
MG: Well all I got out of City’s press release was the pronunciation guide for Villa. “Dah-vid Vee-Ah”
SE: HA! Well how’d would you write down your surname pronunciation, Mark?
MG: Uhhhh, I wouldn’t. At all. Just ‘Mark G’
SE: So just like they use ‘Gee’ for Gulcan Koca?
MG: Yeah, pretty much! Hmm, would Gee’s be something along the lines of ‘Gul-chan Kosher’?
JL: More like ‘Kochie’!
MG: You mean this guy??
SE: Oh God yes. Has he lost weight??
JL: Probably just the stress of watching Port fall just short this season.
MG: And the fact his team’s coach doesn’t have the swag of Montemurro.
JL: And he doesn’t have the Nairn, either!
MG: Look guys, pronunciation doesn’t matter anyway. Tom’ay’to, Tom’ah’to.
SE: No, it’s everything. Istanbul, Constantinople.
JL: Oh my, what a song. So appropriate for the Turkish international.
MG: So Gulcan, if you’re reading this, why did Constantinople get the works?
JL: That’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.