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Caveman
January 17, 2022, 4:26pm
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During my early years of watching Town our two main
goalkeepers were George Tweedy and Wilf Chisholm.

They would wear either red or blue and no way, due to
superstitions related to our fishing background, would
a green jersey be worn. The jersey would have a turtle-kneck
and they wore cloth caps.

In our last season in Division One they shipped 111 goals.

Lord knows how many it would have been if they had
worn green !
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Green is a very unlucky colour for superstitious fishermen, in particular hats and jumpers, there are lots of superstions with the fishermen of both GY and Hull, they would not say a lot of words at sea, rats where known as longtails, rabbits was a unlucky word, seeing a clergyman, nun or funeral on the way to the ship was a bad omen.
I believe there is some truth in town keepers not wearing green and remember my Grandad telling me the same.
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Quoted from petethemariner
Pretty sure Nige Batch wore green on a fairly regular basis and we didn't do too badly when he played, personally I think this green shirt thing is a lot of superstitious baloney.


And Harry Wainman definitely wore green.


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