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Jerry St Clair wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 19:39
steveinblack wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 15:03 "It's mint,mush". Don't think they're targeting me for sales.
This puzzled me. These aren't Gloucestershire sayings I don't think? "Mint" is pretty generic for "excellent" and mush is Cockney rhyming slang I think?

Maybe they should have gone for something more local: "Get this shirt or be a dinlo"
Mush is a very Gloucestershire/Cheltenham saying. No one had heard it before when I went to London, as is one of the go to words when doing a hammed-up Glos accent for friends.
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Jerry St Clair wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 19:39
steveinblack wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 15:03 "It's mint,mush". Don't think they're targeting me for sales.
This puzzled me. These aren't Gloucestershire sayings I don't think? "Mint" is pretty generic for "excellent" and mush is Cockney rhyming slang I think?

Maybe they should have gone for something more local: "Get this shirt or be a dinlo"
Where the hell did dinlo come from? Never heard it until a few years ago, always thought it was dimlow, which speaks for itself as to what it means. Our language is a wonderfully strange mix of old, new, misheard and stupid words.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote:
Jerry St Clair wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 19:39
steveinblack wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 15:03 "It's mint,mush". Don't think they're targeting me for sales.
This puzzled me. These aren't Gloucestershire sayings I don't think? "Mint" is pretty generic for "excellent" and mush is Cockney rhyming slang I think?

Maybe they should have gone for something more local: "Get this shirt or be a dinlo"
Mush is a very Gloucestershire/Cheltenham saying. No one had heard it before when I went to London, as is one of the go to words when doing a hammed-up Glos accent for friends.
Get away with you. Mush isn’t from round here.
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Shade wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 22:49
Jerry St Clair wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 19:39
steveinblack wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 15:03 "It's mint,mush". Don't think they're targeting me for sales.
This puzzled me. These aren't Gloucestershire sayings I don't think? "Mint" is pretty generic for "excellent" and mush is Cockney rhyming slang I think?

Maybe they should have gone for something more local: "Get this shirt or be a dinlo"
Where the hell did dinlo come from? Never heard it until a few years ago, always thought it was dimlow, which speaks for itself as to what it means. Our language is a wonderfully strange mix of old, new, misheard and stupid words.
In all my 38 years I've only ever known it as dinlo.

I've only ever really heard mush in Cheltenham as well - though I know Delboy uses it in Only Fools and Horses a few times, so it's clearly more than just a local dialect.
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ctfc-fan wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 06:09
RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote:
Jerry St Clair wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 19:39

This puzzled me. These aren't Gloucestershire sayings I don't think? "Mint" is pretty generic for "excellent" and mush is Cockney rhyming slang I think?

Maybe they should have gone for something more local: "Get this shirt or be a dinlo"
Mush is a very Gloucestershire/Cheltenham saying. No one had heard it before when I went to London, as is one of the go to words when doing a hammed-up Glos accent for friends.
Get away with you. Mush isn’t from round here.
The Echo would disagree with you: https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/w ... 974089.amp

Not that it’s a reliable source of course.
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Even the OFAH theme tune goes "...Trevor Francis track suits from a mush in Shepherds Bush..." I'd always considered it Cockney but a search for its origins gave me a number of hits from "primarily Northern and common in Bradford" to "Romany" and "usually heard in Kent and the South East" - so 'inconclusive' at best. I've never heard it in this neck of the woods, though.
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Growing up in Worcester if you said I'm going to smack you in the mush it meant FACE!!!
But that's Worcester for you!!
Or you would call someone Ugly mush..ie ugly face. Nice eh?
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ctfc-fan wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 06:09
RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote:
Jerry St Clair wrote: ↑23 Jul 2023, 19:39

This puzzled me. These aren't Gloucestershire sayings I don't think? "Mint" is pretty generic for "excellent" and mush is Cockney rhyming slang I think?

Maybe they should have gone for something more local: "Get this shirt or be a dinlo"
Mush is a very Gloucestershire/Cheltenham saying. No one had heard it before when I went to London, as is one of the go to words when doing a hammed-up Glos accent for friends.
Get away with you. Mush isn’t from round here.
Traditionally, “mush” was a phrase used to order a team of dogs to start moving. It originated in France from the word “marche” which means to walk or move. “Marche” then developed to “mush” in the English language.
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Should have just called it 'Puke Green' and done with it. 🤢
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Swiss-Robin wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 10:06 Should have just called it 'Puke Green' and done with it. 🤢
A proper green would have been better, the mint looked worse in the flesh than on the pics imho.
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It's a play on words ...... as in Mushy Peas with Mint ;)
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I like it but not sure about it being modelled with the Irish flag?
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I always liked the 99/00 white away with the blue/yellow band across the chest. Even if it did look a bit like, 'The Damned Utd'.

Is it me, or did you get do much more 'material' for you money in a football shirt in the 90s? 🤔
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Seen some retro games on Sky when channel-hopping: 90s shirts hung like massive sacks on players.
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Horteng wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 10:37 I like it but not sure about it being modelled with the Irish flag?
Does seem a bit poor judgement
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asl wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 12:11 Seen some retro games on Sky when channel-hopping: 90s shirts hung like massive sacks on players.
But 90s shirts do cover-up beer guts👍

Hold that thought.
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Saw a Rovers fan at Cribbs Causeway once, the guy must have been 30stone! He was wearing an XXXXL Rovers shirt.

I think this. If you wish to wear an Item of sporting equipment, then it ought to be a precursor that you ARE FIT ENOUGH to play the game in question. PERIOD!
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Ihearye wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 12:26
Horteng wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 10:37 I like it but not sure about it being modelled with the Irish flag?
Does seem a bit poor judgement
Well I'm glad it wasn't only me wondering about it. Maybe it's a way to tap into the race going Irish. "You love Cheltenham? The football club have an Irish player, and a green kit! Buy! Buy! Buy!"
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Shade wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 14:27
Ihearye wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 12:26
Horteng wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 10:37 I like it but not sure about it being modelled with the Irish flag?
Does seem a bit poor judgement
Well I'm glad it wasn't only me wondering about it. Maybe it's a way to tap into the race going Irish. "You love Cheltenham? The football club have an Irish player, and a green kit! Buy! Buy! Buy!"
I would doubt the average Irish person would even identify the shirt as being green. Maybe one that has been put in too hot a wash a few hundred times. The shirt that is, not the Irish person
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I'm now thinking this debate could and maybe should reach 3-pages at least... But, please, in the meantime, let's all take a "chill pill"... to use that old Gloucestershire term. (By the way.. and to be on the safe side, I myself would have used an image of a polar bear - with or without a tricolour - to promote a mint shirt... but, thinking on, maybe even that's probably a bit too risky...? Copyright, animal rights etc...).
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plymrob wrote: ↑24 Jul 2023, 16:40 I'm now thinking this debate could and maybe should reach 3-pages at least... But, please, in the meantime, let's all take a "chill pill"... to use that old Gloucestershire term. (By the way.. and to be on the safe side, I myself would have used an image of a polar bear - with or without a tricolour - to promote a mint shirt... but, thinking on, maybe even that's probably a bit too risky...? Copyright, animal rights etc...).
Thank God you have turned up at last!!! I was sure there were going to be riots on the Prom if you hadn't stepped in to police us 😂
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Looks to be just Keena with the Irish tric?

None of the other players in this video hold the flag. https://shop.ctfc.com/products/new-away-shirt-2023-24

As someone said, just following on the lasting image of his celebration vs Sheff Wed.
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Still think it would be excellent publicity if Superdry became our shirt suppliers. Anyone agree/disagree? Comments?
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Perhaps we have a fan base in Sligo...shirt sales taking off in Ireland? If only...perhaps a market to tap in to.
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Swiss-Robin wrote: ↑25 Jul 2023, 11:22 Still think it would be excellent publicity if Superdry became our shirt suppliers. Anyone agree/disagree? Comments?
I believe the Cheltenham-based owner of Superdry was approached.some years ago but has zero interest in football, let alone being associated with a L1 team like CTFC. Besides, you'd be looking at double the existing shirt price for replica strips, I'm sure.
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Uh-oh... I'm doubtless going to be asked to provide a link to where I read that, now...
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asl wrote: ↑25 Jul 2023, 11:53 Uh-oh... I'm doubtless going to be asked to provide a link to where I read that, now...
I remember the same, so hopefully that's enough proof!
Dunkerton don't do football.
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Shade wrote: ↑25 Jul 2023, 12:28
asl wrote: ↑25 Jul 2023, 11:53 Uh-oh... I'm doubtless going to be asked to provide a link to where I read that, now...
I remember the same, so hopefully that's enough proof!
Dunkerton don't do football.
We will soon be in the enviable position of being the only thing in Cheltenham he has got his grubby mitts on
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