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All Things Stoke & Beautiful
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Britplan
 Our great stadium as seen in “plan” view. A simple, clean design that looks
fantastic on all colours. Wear this with pride.
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I Love SCFC
 A simple but effective design that gives your personal display of affection to the
one (club) you Love.
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Bearings
+52 59 18.00 N
-2 10 32.00 W
May not mean much at first glance but put it into GPS SatNav and it will guide you to the best place on Earth, The Britannia Stadium. These are wrapped around our Brit Plan to make a striking design. |
Roman
 A nod to our history and how our year of formation may have been displayed at the time. MDCCCLXIII is of course the Roman Numerals for 1863.
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Caution – I am the Potter’s Twelfth
Man
 If the health and safety police had their way then every fan would not be allowed into
the Brit. unless wearing this notice and ear defenders. Caution High Noise Levels – I AM THE POTTERS TWELFTH MAN.
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Abdoulaye – Evolution
 An Abdy lifewear classic. Disproving Darwin, 150 years after he came up with it! –
There is no Theory of Evolution. Only a list of creatures that Abdoulaye Faye has allowed to live.
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Definitely City
 Wear this and you might live forever. A supersonic nod to Noel & Liam despite
their manc. roots. This is a classic design further improved by including two of the most important words in the English language.
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F*ck The Media
 As that famous son of Ireland, Father Jack (from Father Ted) says “Feck the Media”.
Okay he probably didn’t say “the media”, or our shirt doesn’t mean Feck. We are Stoke and no matter what anyone says we work hard, play hard and get results. F*ck ’em.
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Stokies Here
 A design for Stokies that reside in all corners of the world. We have had requests
for shirts from Australia, USA, Chile, Norway, Sweden an even Fegg Hayes. As the
Song goes, Stokies Here, Stokies There Stokies Every F*ckin where. Wherever you
are the Kiln image will remind of where your heart is.
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Liam Lawrence by Potter 63
 As Liam signs a 4 year extension to his contract we have tweaked Potter 63’s wonderful painting of Lenny celebrating notching our first Premier League goal.
Keep the dog away this season Liam.
James Beattie by Potter 63
 James Beattie was TP’s best signing at the turn of 2009. His goals had fans talking of
him being an England player again, although I doubt if Fabio even knows where the Brit. is. Potter 63’s great piece of art has captured Beats in that pose we all love to see him in, celebrating a goal for the Mighty Potters. We have give
it the Stoketshirts treatment and added his name and squad number.
Austria Tour Shirts – Where Potters Dare
 Inspired
by messrs Burton and Eastwood’s 1968 classic, this alternative Pre-Season 2009
shirt shows the locations of the Potters all-important warm-up matches and their
opponents. Any Stokies planning an assault on
the quiet mountainous nation of Austria will find the map invaluable and the “tour dates” will act as a timely reminder of where you’re supposed to be should you over indulge on “bier und schnitzel”
Austria Tour Shirts – The Hills are Alive
 The Sound of Austria 2009! Remember Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music? For Julie read Liam. Well this year the Alps will be ringing to the Sound of Stokies!
Yes, it’s pre-season time again! July is here and once again Tony and the lads are off to the land of the Schnitzel for another gruelling week of ‘aard work in the mountains.
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Fortress – Ian Dyer The Boothen End Bard
 “The Britannia is packed to the rafters…”- the first line of Ian Dyer’s stirring tribute to the fantastic matchday atmosphere of the Brit – “Fortress”.
Inspired by the imagery of Ian’s Poem we created our own take on “Fortress Britannia”. A hybrid Stadium entrance/castle wall to represent the fortress mentality that will no doubt welcome opposition teams and fans for many a season and embellished with the phrase “This is our Fortress – where no one shirks or hides”.
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Stoke City F.C.
Getting Ready for 2009-2010
The pre season speculation continues to rumble on. Talk of new signings with names such as
Scholes, Crouch, Cisse and O’ Neil linked with the club. Who’s going? Our Irish aces shirt has been de-listed and taken back to the drawing board now that Stephen Kelly has gone to Fulham. Meanwhile Stokies head of in
search of the sun with a Stoketshirts T shirt in their case. Thought like “where’s that internet cafe when you need it?” “Is that text from my mate a windup or can we really get him in a Stoke shirt?” Is “Davesviews” just a front for all internet cafe owners to make a few quid?” Isn’t summer great.
I am sure Sir Peter and Triffic
Tone won’t let us down and will get the right players who possess the “right DNA.” In Tony we trust.
Our heroes & legends newsletter had a couple of hitches with the
majority of you only getting the text version. Please bear with
us while we try to master these wonderful software programmes
that it ooh so easy to communicate (If only) this year.
Current Bestsellers:
Our bestselling ten t-shirts from the past month
1: Abdoulaye Faye L’esprit White
2: SC/FC Let There Be Stoke
3: Longthrow
4: Bearpit Claw Logo
5: Ab Faye Does Not Sleep
6: Who R Yer
7: Abdoulaye Magnifique
8: Ow At?
9: Abdoulaye Faye L’esprit Colour
10: Abdoulaye My Lord
Thanks For Everything!
Thanks for your continued support. As I said in our last
newsletter, when we get a positive
review or see someone wearing one of our shirts it makes it all worthwhile. A personal highlight for me last month was when I was in Spain for a family holiday and my daughter asked me if that was one of our shirts that someone was wearing. It was and it was someone I didn’t know wearing a Longthrow shirt – what a buzz! We have also got some great supporters on the messageboards that keep giving us fantastic ideas for new designs. If you’ve got any suggestions for designs that you’d like to see us do, or if you think we could improve on something we’re doing, or even if you just have a question about what we do please don’t hesitate to contact us on
info@stoketshirts.co.uk
Mugs
Our Abdoulaye Faye Mug is now available and selling
fast. Don’t forget that it is
a limited edition of 100
with No. 25
reserved for the man himself. To get yours follow this
link
AD Faye 25 Mug
 Our Next mug is
in the pipeline and all will be revealed in the next newsletter
Potter 63 – Art Prints
Potter63’s great airbrush artwork is now available in our
webstore. These will make a great centre piece on any wall. We have 3 options of prints to choose from. There is also a wide selection of sizes.
These are described and listed below
1. A High Quality Box Framed Canvas Print (where the
canvas is stretched over the frame)
2. A Canvas Only Print that is also high quality and
that you can frame.
3. A Gloss Photo Paper print, again high quality,
and can be framed by yourself.
The sizes of the prints are
8 x 12 inch
12 x 16 inch
16 x 20 inch
20 x 30 inch
James Beattie Airbrush
Liam Lawrence Airbrush
What Else?
We had a great piece in the business section local newspaper that featured our shirts.
For any of you that may have missed it then it can be seen online here –
Sentinel Stoketshirts Article
We have also been busy supporting the Donna Louise
Children’s Hospice in a couple of areas helping fundraise for a very worthy
cause. We helped Rory Delap by “branding” his charity bike ride “Longthrow
does the Longride” , designing a logo for it and having his cycling shirt
printed after raising over £2500 getting sponsors to have their logos printed
onto it. See pics of the shirt here
“Longthrow does The Longride”
and here
Longthrow Rory Pics
We have also been auctioning the prestige Nos. of the
Tony Says Mugs and amazingly No. 100 went for £26. We have raised over £70 for the Donna Louise by doing this thanks to your generosity.
Don’t Forget Your Holiday T Shirts
It’s Holiday season and it’s always great to see a fellow Stokie strolling along the prom wearing a Stoke T Shirt, whether it be Cyprus, Salou, Rio or Rhyl. Be Loyal, Be Proud, Be Seen wearing a Stoke T Shirt.
Don’t forget to take your photo wearing it and send it in to us to add to our “show us your shirts” page. Make your holiday complete and buy oneof our fantastic designs! Have a good one!
Stoketshirts.co.uk Fantasy Football League
It’s hardly Skinner and Baddiel but you could win prizes
in our very own Stoketshirts.co.uk Fantasy Football League. We have formed a league on the
http://fantasy.premierleague.com website. It is in the form of a head tohead league, where teams play each other on a weekly basis with 3 points for a win and 1 for a draw.. It’s completely FREE TO ENTER and I have added a couple
of Stokie Rules to keep it interesting. They are that you must have the maximum no. of Stoke players in your selection (Three) at all times, with at
least two selected to start each game (unless injured). To register then set a team up on the above website then use the Stoketshirts.co.uk league code
to join your team into the league 215223-73012. If you have any problems with registering for this then please email me on info@stoketshirts.co.uk and I
will get back to you when I can. The Prizes will be a t shirt and hoodie of your choice to the winner with a t shirt to the runner up. Good Luck.
Website Updates
We continue to develop our website to include
a little cultural diversity. Still based around all things Stoke and beautiful we have updated our Poetry page which features the work of the Bard of the Boothen End, Ian Dyer. Ian has released his first Stoke City Poetry CD. It is called One to Ten, featuring
10 of his poems. It is available from our site. All profits will be going to the Donna Louise Children’s Hospice, We also have a page dedicated to
Art that relates to Stoke
City and features Potter 63’s fantastic work which we now have on sale soon both as prints and on T shirts. We also have a blog page which can be found here –
Stoketshirts.co.ukBlog.
Show us your shirts is a page on our site dedicated to you wearing your stoketshirts, so take a pic of yourself wearing your shirt, send it to us at
shirts@stoketshirts.co.uk and we will get them posted. You might spot a couple of your heroes if you check out the page now –
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We were spoilt for choice with the many designs that we came up with for the Golden One so we decided to offer three of them! First up is THE GOLDEN ONE. It features Steino in his classic predatory pose having just unleashed another cracker. His famous number 9 and the text “The Golden One” also appear on the design. My recommendation is to have this on a red shirt
Our second tribute to Earl Mark Sean Stein (as his mother christened him).Our less original naming convention of the design describes the layout. a vertical line of text proclaiming STEINO! along with Mark in his red and white stripes. Looks fantastic on a black shirt..jpg "Steino Horizontal")
Again not the most inspiring name of a design but this simple duo-toned image captures all that is great about Steino!Simple, effective, and makes a striking impact. A goal ratio of better than 1 in every 2 games ensured that Steino made his Mark on all Stokies memories. Looks great on a red shirt..jpg "Smith")
The subject of this design needs no introduction or fanfare, so we’ll keep it simple like the design – SMITH.
Banks of England. The Safest pair of hands in the country. This is one Gordon that I would trust never to let anything get past him. A true Stoke City Legend and Hero. There aren’t many players who attract worldwide recognition and would have a game held in their honour some 40 odd years after finishing his career
Undoubtedly TP’s best signing from last season. This man has taken on the mantle of centre half cult heroes like Georgie Berry & Denis Smith before him. Again a difficult choice between designs so we have produced both! See below for a full translation.
L’esprit in colour. The text in Abdoulaye Faye’s native tongue says ” Le coeur d’un lion.
Featuring a Potters kiln and the text Six Towns – One Soul. A statement similar to “vis unita fortior” in the respect that while the six towns maintain their individuality, when put together collectively we have a very strong identity of creativity and a philosophy of work hard, play hard.
Soul on Trent – again features the Potters kiln and is a nod to the Northern Soul scene that Stoke – on – Trent was the hub of back in the late 60’s/ early 70’s. The essence of the Torch and Motown music drove the scene that has recently been revived with regular Northern Soul nights at lots of venues in the area.
