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📩A quick-fire chat with the man behind Fordbank Star’s latest win. Straight answers, a bit of humour, and a reminder that amateur football never needs a filter — an Inside Verdict feature .

Names: Barry Hay
Club: Fordbank Star

Congratulations on the win — what was the first thing that went through your head after the final whistle?

Was just glad we got the result

What was the game plan going in, and how well do you think the lads stuck to it?

Kill them down the centre playing no wingers

Amateur football throws up all sorts of challenges — what does this result say about your side’s mentality right now?

We can win games!!

Fordbank Star
What was your message to the players back in the dressing room after a win like that?
Need that desire and standard every week. The tone is now set.

Scottish winter survival — same gear every week or layers for days?

Layers for days for me.

Half-time mood — calm talk or flying bottle?

Depends on how the lads are playing. If it needs the flying bottle treatment its getting it.

If your team had a Netflix series, what would it be called?

The good the bad and the ugly.

Inside verdict

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Quotes we like

“The Saturday morning GCFA & the Sunday GDSFC are 2 superb examples of the thriving Amateur football scene when leagues are well run .”

~ Player involved in both leagues