Crest Review

[Louzie0]

Disappointed that the cricket bat 🏏 and football combo ( imagine ⚽️ instead of the red ball) never made the last 3. Framed in the gas lamp with a star and lion’s mane above. Like in the Nativity plays.

It acknowledged the 4 cricket players who met under the gas lamp and had to pretend they were forming a football club as it was November and the police didn’t believe their story of why the heavy kitbags were there...

This is excellent, but I can't help thinking that the football should be a rugby ball 🏉 to remind everyone that the first half of the first game was played under rugby rules.

Creative input, that’s what it’s all about, algy! Love the rugby ball👍

[Des Little]

Make the star the eye of the lion, job done, everyone happy.

The eye of the lion.  We could run out to a dreadful remake of the Survivor classic as well. 

[cdbearsfan]

It's the eye of the lion
On a badge on our top
At least we're not quite as shit as our rivals
Just a hope for survival
Cos our team aren't much cop
And our crest has a lovely new eyeeyeyyee
Of the tige... erm... lion

Might need a bit of work.

[algy]

Disappointed that the cricket bat 🏏 and football combo ( imagine ⚽️ instead of the red ball) never made the last 3. Framed in the gas lamp with a star and lion’s mane above. Like in the Nativity plays.

It acknowledged the 4 cricket players who met under the gas lamp and had to pretend they were forming a football club as it was November and the police didn’t believe their story of why the heavy kitbags were there...

Riffing off this, I reckon this should be our badge



It's pretty much got the whole lot in there:

- A gas lamp to do that bit of the creation myth
- Star inside the lamp to indicate that we won the European Cup at some point, but also that it's a gas lamp
- A cricket bat (originally cricketers) and a football (became a football club)
- A claret & blue Scottish lion.  This represents George Ramsay, which is why it's holding an OS map of Birmingham because it's looking for Calthorpe FC but ended up in B6
- All within a brown oval representing a rugby ball because we played the first half of our first game under rugby rules according to popular belief/myth.
- Also we were originally meant to play in chocolate & blue so it kind of works on that level too


 I'm not a designer so someone with more skills in that area than me would need to do the finer work to make it look good, but you get the idea.

[cdbearsfan]

Can we turn the cross upside down so that it represents our Wesleyan origins and Black Sabbath, please?

[Sexual Ealing]

That is genuinely beautiful, algy.

[Des Little]

I'd buy it

[paul_e]

Still better than Lerner came up with.

[Drummond]

It's the eye of the lion
On a badge on our top
At least we're not quite as shit as our rivals
Just a hope for survival
Cos our team aren't much cop
And our crest has a lovely new staaaaaaaaaaar
Of the tige... erm... lion

Might need a bit of work.

[ChicagoLion]

That is genuinely beautiful, algy.

I yeh it’s made me quite emotional

[Risso]

That's actually brilliant Algy. Also love that it's in everybody's favourite typeface, comic sans.

[AV82EC]

That's actually brilliant Algy. Also love that it's in everybody's favourite typeface, comic sans.

It was the comic sans that clinched it for me.

[Clark W Griswold]

Disappointed that the cricket bat 🏏 and football combo ( imagine ⚽️ instead of the red ball) never made the last 3. Framed in the gas lamp with a star and lion’s mane above. Like in the Nativity plays.

It acknowledged the 4 cricket players who met under the gas lamp and had to pretend they were forming a football club as it was November and the police didn’t believe their story of why the heavy kitbags were there...

Riffing off this, I reckon this should be our badge



It's pretty much got the whole lot in there:

- A gas lamp to do that bit of the creation myth
- Star inside the lamp to indicate that we won the European Cup at some point, but also that it's a gas lamp
- A cricket bat (originally cricketers) and a football (became a football club)
- A claret & blue Scottish lion.  This represents George Ramsay, which is why it's holding an OS map of Birmingham because it's looking for Calthorpe FC but ended up in B6
- All within a brown oval representing a rugby ball because we played the first half of our first game under rugby rules according to popular belief/myth.
- Also we were originally meant to play in chocolate & blue so it kind of works on that level too


 I'm not a designer so someone with more skills in that area than me would need to do the finer work to make it look good, but you get the idea.

I think you need some sort of representation of the last 10 years so i think rather than making the brown part rugby ball shaped i'd make it turd shaped with steam coming off it.

[KevinGage]

Disappointed that the cricket bat 🏏 and football combo ( imagine ⚽️ instead of the red ball) never made the last 3. Framed in the gas lamp with a star and lion’s mane above. Like in the Nativity plays.

It acknowledged the 4 cricket players who met under the gas lamp and had to pretend they were forming a football club as it was November and the police didn’t believe their story of why the heavy kitbags were there...

Riffing off this, I reckon this should be our badge



It's pretty much got the whole lot in there:

- A gas lamp to do that bit of the creation myth
- Star inside the lamp to indicate that we won the European Cup at some point, but also that it's a gas lamp
- A cricket bat (originally cricketers) and a football (became a football club)
- A claret & blue Scottish lion.  This represents George Ramsay, which is why it's holding an OS map of Birmingham because it's looking for Calthorpe FC but ended up in B6
- All within a brown oval representing a rugby ball because we played the first half of our first game under rugby rules according to popular belief/myth.
- Also we were originally meant to play in chocolate & blue so it kind of works on that level too


 I'm not a designer so someone with more skills in that area than me would need to do the finer work to make it look good, but you get the idea.

No, I think you've pretty much nailed it algy. 

If you can work John Fashanu's sweatbands in there somehow (or that weird tai chi ritual he did pre match) that would be magic.

[Risso]

Could we have a '£' sign to signify our other great achievement, coming 20th in the Deloitte top 20 richest clubs?