Crest Review

[hipkiss92]

You wouldn't change your handwriting size in the middle of doing anything, so why are there two different text sizes on the round badge.

[RamboandBruno]

Round one is fine.

[Legion]

Neither are great. The round one is the better of the two.

[DB]

So for 4 years in our early days it was facing right, but 140 facing left the proposal is to change it back?

[john e]

Does it matter which way the bloody Lion is facing

[cdbearsfan]

I suppose that depends how close to it you are standing, and whether you're with anyone that you're confident you could outrun.

[nigel]

Round is better.

Both aren't great.

One is different
One is safe

They’re in a bit of a no win situation, you’ll never please everyone and those that don’t like them will always shout loudest

Personally, a stand alone lion would have been the one

[nigel]

Does it matter which way the bloody Lion is facing

It does to some, John 

[DB]

Does it matter which way the bloody Lion is facing

Not in grand scheme of things...and neither will the whole badge (unless they do a Leeds). But we still want to get it 'right' facing g right just looks wrong IMO.

[Toronto Villa]

It looks different because it’s what we’ve become used to. In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter. I just want to win games.

[PeterWithesShin]

In the grand scheme of things nothing about the club matters. Doesn't mean people should just accept them fucking up the badge and use historical fact as a reason when it isn't in any way fact. It's just some twat at a design company that couldn't care less about the club trying to justify the money they charged, so they looked on Historical Kits.

[Toronto Villa]

It clearly means more to you than it does me. Both our positions are fine. Badges in our history have changed without our input. When we went down in 86 that kit didn't even have a badge. Imagine the outcry if that was the case today. So they have some input this time. It was never going to be universal in its acceptance. Nothing is anymore on any subject. So whatever it is, I hope the team in the kit with it on win loads of games and do us proud.

[Sexual Ealing]

If we wanted to go distinctive compared to the whole host of other topflight clubs with the round badge, we could've had a reworking on the diamond shaped crest on the old Trinity.

 

This is the correct answer for me, although, like others, I'm not that arsed. I'm glad we're getting a new one though.

[Sexual Ealing]

And for the fans saying that the round one looks very samey to a fair few other clubs, that may be the case, but it is BY FAR the classiest round badge in the Premier League right now. 

Well said. The proposed new Villa round badge is head and shoulders better than every other round badge out there. It is very well done. The opposition, here, to the switched lion is just baffling.

And just look at West Ham's badge, really poor. Almost as bad as our Lerner badge which managed to leave out our name and main colour while giving us the palest yellow lion we have had.

Of the other PL clubs, round badge or not, I think Palace have the best one, followed by (not in any order Liverpool, Man City, Newcastle and Spurs. Our new one will be middling. Bournemouth's can do one, and do several others after that.

And why do I care? I don't. I have totally fucked my sleeping pattern.

[Rory]

I am not fundamentally opposed to the lion facing the other way, and it could be because I'm just not used to it, but it looks like 'our' lion in a mirror.

And anyone who doesn't see the need for an outer gold circle, and for the star (if it absolutely has to be there) to be gold, I pity you.