Football Thermals

Nuttalls Mint Toes

Nuttalls Mint Toes

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Have really struggled with the cold the last few days and wonder if I am getting to 'that age' where the cold starts to get you. Any advice on thermals or keeping warm without looking like a gimp or worse still over-heating in the pub before the game! This advice might be surplus to requirements as I notice it's back to 11c on Saturday!!
 
I once read a cold weather Top Tip of wrapping tin foil around your legs before putting your pants on.

I think it was on a letters page somewhere…
 
Nuttalls Mint Toes said:
Have really struggled with the cold the last few days and wonder if I am getting to 'that age' where the cold starts to get you. Any advice on thermals or keeping warm without looking like a gimp or worse still over-heating in the pub before the game! This advice might be surplus to requirements as I notice it's back to 11c on Saturday!!
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From someone who works outside get top, bottom and just as important socks unless your doing pub, travel etc(gets too hot) then top and shirt over it is fine.

Don't go cheap as there useless I'm on my fourth winter of these M&S Thremals.
 
Keep your silk pyjama bottoms on under your trackies, that'll do the trick.

I'm not joking by the way, I read a book by one of the members of Sir Edmund Hillary's successful Everest campaign, and he kept his silk pyjama bottoms on under his Tweed suit to help keep him warm at 8,000 feet!
 
Nuttalls Mint Toes said:
Have really struggled with the cold the last few days and wonder if I am getting to 'that age' where the cold starts to get you. Any advice on thermals or keeping warm without looking like a gimp or worse still over-heating in the pub before the game! This advice might be surplus to requirements as I notice it's back to 11c on Saturday!!
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Snap. Cold to the bone, probably due to rheumatoid. Bought heat gen vests from Marks which have certainly helped
 
Some great plush lined (thick pile) long johns from Primark

Cheap and I use them under my walking trousers for Hiking

Freezing too (separate thread).

Don't qualify for Pension Credit, but have to be so careful with bills.Labour idiots.
 
Nuttalls Mint Toes said:
Have really struggled with the cold the last few days and wonder if I am getting to 'that age' where the cold starts to get you. Any advice on thermals or keeping warm without looking like a gimp or worse still over-heating in the pub before the game! This advice might be surplus to requirements as I notice it's back to 11c on Saturday!!
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My cancer treatment zapped my hypothalamus so I can't regulate my body temperature or generate heat once cold.
Although I am on the extreme end of suffering cold these two items have saved me going home at HT on cold days.


This one is the game changer and I made sure I got a decent capacity battery and it lasts for hours.


Edit: This is the battery.
 
Get down to your local Mountain Warehouse and get some merino rich thermals for about £25 quid. Had some for years and haven't worn them out yet.

Top tip for when you go inside or the pub, open your jacket immediately, then you won't overheat. Very tempting to keep buttoned up till you get hot, but by then you'll melt.
 
Eventhepenguins said:
Keep your silk pyjama bottoms on under your trackies, that'll do the trick.

I'm not joking by the way, I read a book by one of the members of Sir Edmund Hillary's successful Everest campaign, and he kept his silk pyjama bottoms on under his Tweed suit to help keep him warm at 8,000 feet!
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Interesting bit of information 👍at Bolton I was going to wear my silk pyjamas over my tweed suit so as well as keeping me warm it’ll stop me from looking like a bit of a knobhead
 
Feet and hands, keep those well insulated from the off and the rest will follow. Conversely, let them get cold at any point and they will stay that way for the rest of the day 🥶
 
Always remember going to Shrewsbury's old ground on a freezing cold day (we won!) and at night we were at a family do in a pub - I was dressed up in so many layers that I got to this pub which had got fire's burning and heating on and genuinely started to have a funny turn and had to go in the Gents and just strip down to the basics. I left everything on the top of the loo cistern not wanting to walk back in carrying my thermals and thought I'd collect on the way home. Came to home time and some (warm) bastard had nicked them all!!
 
TangerineAde said:
Smearing yourself in goose fat, seems to work for New Years’s Day swimmers. 🥶👍🏼
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Contrary to the evocative pictures of grease-clad English Channel swimmers of the past, goose fat does not keep you warm. Rather, Channel swimmers train to acclimatise to the water temperature.
 
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