Crest Review

[villadelph]

Amount of shite on Twitter etc about us copying Chelsea. Ignoring that we were using the lion 20 years before Chelsea were even formed. 1900s wankers.

Ours doesn't look like it's doing a fucking pole dance.

Their lion looks like roadkill.

[tomd2103]

Amount of shite on Twitter etc about us copying Chelsea. Ignoring that we were using the lion 20 years before Chelsea were even formed. 1900s wankers.

If we were going to copy anyone, I'd like to think we'd at least copy a club with an ounce of class and decency about them (i.e. not fucking Chelsea).

Presume we had a round badge before them anyway. 

[Drummond]

Amount of shite on Twitter etc about us copying Chelsea. Ignoring that we were using the lion 20 years before Chelsea were even formed. 1900s wankers.

If we were going to copy anyone, I'd like to think we'd at least copy a club with an ounce of class and decency about them (i.e. not fucking Chelsea).

Presume we had a round badge before them anyway.

We got ours in the 70s and they had one in the 50s.

[darren woolley]

I'm pleased we have a round badge again.

[Risso]

Why is the 1874 much smaller than the name? It looks shit, and the star looks even worse on this badge as it stands out more.

[Brazilian Villain]

They clearly based the stand alone lion and font on my effort in June: 

But faced it the wrong way. 

I remain an amateur designer.

Not keen on the yellow standalone lion but I do like your interpretation of the 'Luke' shirt for the Castore era.

[pauliewalnuts]

I remain an amateur designer.

You should apply for a job at Macron.

[Drummond]

Why is the 1874 much smaller than the name? It looks shit, and the star looks even worse on this badge as it stands out more.

Simply because it's less important. It looks right to me.

I don't like the star at all either.

[pablo_picasso]

Amount of shite on Twitter etc about us copying Chelsea. Ignoring that we were using the lion 20 years before Chelsea were even formed. 1900s wankers.

Ours doesn't look like it's doing a fucking pole dance.

Or a confused lollipop lady…

Amount of shite on Twitter etc about us copying Chelsea. Ignoring that we were using the lion 20 years before Chelsea were even formed. 1900s wankers.

From what I can tell, a lot of their confusion comes from a widely shared but poorly researched graphic that has them thinking that we had a lion for one year in 1880 & then removed it until 1956. Their shield in 53 which has the lion looks absolutely nothing like our shield from the 70’s, but most fans have the attention span of a cat in a room full of pen lights, so think that their shield in 2005, or whenever their dirty Oligarch money arrived, was the first ever circular shield ever created. The fact that we had a right facing lion in an oval shaped shield in 1878 before they were even created & never moved away from our lion is completely lost on them.

[AV82EC]

Chelsea fans in having no sense of history, I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

[Bad English]

Also, fucks given about what Chelsea or any other fans on Twitter think = zero.

[Ian.]

I’m sure over half of what is written on Twitter is just a wind up as well.

[pauliewalnuts]

I never, ever pay any attention to fans of any club founded in the twentieth century.

Dreadful arrivistes.

[London Villan]

I’m sure over half of what is written on Twitter is just a wind up as well.

Give it another week and it might not even exist!

[FatSam]

If we were going with the round badge, I would have put 'Aston' across the top, 'Villa' across the bottom, '18' at the middle on the left, and '74' at the middle on the right. I would have also got rid of the stupid star. I'm assuming that the lion is flipped in large part to make the crest different from our 70s/ 80s one, and deal with copyright issues, which is of course an important consideration.