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This year we have decided to partner with Iffyton to supply and print the 2010/2011 Shirt

The cost of the shirt is £9.99 + £3.98 postage and packaging, but you can get two sent for that cost, spoil yourself

Please buy your shirts here.......

http://www.iffyton.co.uk/index.php/football-tshirts/mancity-gorton-1393.html

please let us know if/what you order in this thread so that we have an idea of how well they are going

Many Thanks

Just ordered one mate. 2XL - oh for the days of extreme fitness!

I'm probably the only one who doesn't know this but - I assume the Templar cross was St Marks Gorton badge? Monastery and all that?

That's quite nice that. It's a football shirt without looking like a football shirt.

I will order one and try and get me pictured in it warming up for a game and i promise that i will wear it if we ever get to do a lap around the pitch at a match.

erm...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Cross

Love it...will be purchasing at the end of the month ;-)

sorry,...i know it isn't...but it does look a bit...erm,...especially at a glance for somebody who would'nt know.

Beanieboy wrote:sorry,...i know it isn't...but it does look a bit...erm,...especially at a glance for somebody who would'nt know.

It's our history...any other connotations are a mute point

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

Beanieboy wrote:sorry,...i know it isn't...but it does look a bit...erm,...especially at a glance for somebody who would'nt know.

It's our history...any other connotations are a mute point

The Iron Cross was worn well before and after the Nazis so I have no problem with wearing it. I've just ordered an XL - obviously I would normally wear a small but just to be on the safe side.......

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

Beanieboy wrote:sorry,...i know it isn't...but it does look a bit...erm,...especially at a glance for somebody who would'nt know.

It's our history...any other connotations are a mute point

moot Beeks moot

tsk tsk

cracking shirt, I'll be having one of those

will be purchasing one when i get paid at end of the month.

ant london wrote:

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

Beanieboy wrote:sorry,...i know it isn't...but it does look a bit...erm,...especially at a glance for somebody who would'nt know.

It's our history...any other connotations are a mute point

moot Beeks moot

tsk tsk

cracking shirt, I'll be having one of those

Ha! Sorry not concentrating...some of us have work to do unlike you poolside slackers ;-)

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:

Beanieboy wrote:sorry,...i know it isn't...but it does look a bit...erm,...especially at a glance for somebody who would'nt know.

It's our history...any other connotations are a mute point

I know mate,..and something to be proud of,...it's more the design/colouring that gives it that feel though, had it been sky-blue with a white or maroon cross the whole http://aryanwear.com/1488-iron-cross-skinhead-tshirt-pi-71.html?invis=0&osCsid=285b079d419ea7b3a0aed8324f6ef7b3 look would be gone....i would'nt wear this just because of the connection people would make,...i normally don't give a shit what anybody i don't know/care about thinks of me, but i would never want to been seen as that kind of scum.

I've tried to buy one three times, but Worldpay keeps making a processing error.

Nice shirt though, I'll try again in a few days.

IanBishopsHaircut wrote:..some of us have work to do unlike you poolside slackers ;-)

funny you should mention it....I've been off Mon, Tues and Today for the festival of sheep and cow street genocide....sorry Eid!

Just off to the boozer ;-)

Beanieboy wrote:[
I know mate,..and something to be proud of,...it's more the design/colouring that gives it that feel though, had it been sky-blue with a white or maroon cross

That's the thing though...our kit was black with a white cross...If it was up to me we would still be wearing it!!

Just to keep an idea of what we have done, if you order one, can you please add to the poll

Thanks all

And its a Maltese cross, it's like people making the George cross a racist symbol,

Another thing, you can usually tell the iron cross because it's round some bastards neck who is invading Poland....

Thank fucl we didn't print these last month!

Patrick wrote:Just to keep an idea of what we have done, if you order one, can you please add to the poll

Thanks all

And its a Maltese cross, it's like people making the George cross a racist symbol,

Another thing, you can usually tell the iron cross because it's round some bastards neck who is invading Poland....

Thank fucl we didn't print these last month!

Yep - obviously it was some sort of old (rather than German 20th century) cross, the Maltese cross obviously deriving from the Knights of the Hospital (as they ruled the place for 300 years), rather than the Templars - although they were much the same with reversed colours. The iron cross (German army, bugger-all to do with 'nazis') derives from the Teutonic Knights of course, although they all seem to be much the same with several variations available.

So Patrick is there a 19th C Maltese connection, or being associated with Gorton Monastery is it not likely to be one of the religious order crosses, from which the Maltese cross also derived?

john@staustell wrote:

Patrick wrote:Just to keep an idea of what we have done, if you order one, can you please add to the poll

Thanks all

And its a Maltese cross, it's like people making the George cross a racist symbol,

Another thing, you can usually tell the iron cross because it's round some bastards neck who is invading Poland....

Thank fucl we didn't print these last month!

Yep - obviously it was some sort of old (rather than German 20th century) cross, the Maltese cross obviously deriving from the Knights of the Hospital (as they ruled the place for 300 years), rather than the Templars - although they were much the same with reversed colours. The iron cross (German army, bugger-all to do with 'nazis') derives from the Teutonic Knights of course, although they all seem to be much the same with several variations available.


So Patrick is there a 19th C Maltese connection, or being associated with Gorton Monastery is it not likely to be one of the religious order crosses, from which the Maltese cross also derived?

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