My first Villa shirt had the 1969-1973 blue lion atop the AV. I vaguely remember that the seven year-old me felt disappointed that it wasn't the same crest that adorned the Trinity Road stand. Now I really like its pared down simplicity. Whether it works in the twenty-first century world of merchandise and corporate branding is another matter - although as others have said, Spurs and Liverpool have moved away from crests that looked like every heraldic symbol possible had to be included to a simple cockerel and liver bird.
Quote from: Mister E on October 06, 2021, 05:05:05 PMQuote from: German James on October 06, 2021, 09:17:40 AM"Non sumus leves; non solum non approbamus te"Very good!!Indeed it is!
Quote from: German James on October 06, 2021, 09:17:40 AM"Non sumus leves; non solum non approbamus te"Very good!!
"Non sumus leves; non solum non approbamus te"
Not as good but there's also 'vis sponsione contra nos?'
This might be up there with admitting to owning a caravan, but I really like what they did with the Spurs badge.
Quote from: Risso on October 06, 2021, 06:32:06 PMThis might be up there with admitting to owning a caravan, but I really like what they did with the Spurs badge.I agree, but we have a lion, which is fairly commonplace, so I'm not sure it would work for us.Whereas Tottenham had an advantage because a cock and singular ball hasn't been seen in European popular culture since 1945.
The current fashion is to strip logos back, (spurs, bin dippers) so we’ll probably just have a gold lion on the next home shirt.
Quote from: Rory on October 07, 2021, 12:41:46 AMQuote from: Risso on October 06, 2021, 06:32:06 PMThis might be up there with admitting to owning a caravan, but I really like what they did with the Spurs badge.I agree, but we have a lion, which is fairly commonplace, so I'm not sure it would work for us.Whereas Tottenham had an advantage because a cock and singular ball hasn't been seen in European popular culture since 1945.This is possibly the best invocation of Godwin's Law yet. 🙂
Quote from: London Villan on October 06, 2021, 06:05:24 PMThe current fashion is to strip logos back, (spurs, bin dippers) so we’ll probably just have a gold lion on the next home shirt.I'd be perfectly happy with that. Bit like the 1874 crest.
Quote from: chrisw1 on October 07, 2021, 08:42:15 AMQuote from: London Villan on October 06, 2021, 06:05:24 PMThe current fashion is to strip logos back, (spurs, bin dippers) so we’ll probably just have a gold lion on the next home shirt.I'd be perfectly happy with that. Bit like the 1874 crest.Me too. Think it'd look really good, and we could quite reasonably have a black away kit with a red lion for the 150th anniversary.
The current one is by far the worst, I hate everything about it, including its association with the Lerner era. I can't believe it hasn't be redone to be honest. Of the old ones, the round badge is the best followed by the blue shield with the claret lion. I don't mind the stripey shield with the gold lion, although this is mainly due to associating it with a relatively successful period in our history, rather than any artitisic merit it has.
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