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The Beautiful History: Football Club Badges Tell the Story of Britain, pub. aug 2021 by @pitchpublishing. Follow up to the award-winning The Beautiful Badgethebeautifulhistory.com LondonJoined April 2018
Congratulations to @StockportCounty on promotion from League 2.
The perfect excuse to show the greatest example of how to adapt your town coat of arms and make it into a 'football club badge' - add a football. simple!
An all time classic.
@BeautifulBadge This is George Duchamp (from🇧🇪), captain of Racing Club de France rugby team in 1897 wearing a splendid star !
This «RC» star was awarded every year by the club committee to the most deserving team players e. g. 4 or 5 per year
Then they moved to award honour caps instead !
Relatively easy to cut out and stitch onto your football jersey, the star was a popular ‘badge’ in the early days of football.
Wonderfully demonstrated here by John Finlayson, of #LutonTown in 1896
Image featured in #TheBeautifulBadge courtesy of thestrawplaiters.com
@BeautifulBadge In 1976 B Division (then Northern Ireland's top non-league tier) side Carrick Rangers won the Irish Cup. They wore a specially printed kit featuring the initials CFC, some numpty left out the R! In the Cup Winners Cup they defeated Aris of Luxembourg before losing to Southampton
Bin the badge!
The early 70s saw many clubs using their initials in a script font
This often came about because clubs were informed they didn’t ‘own’ the town / city coat of arms that they had been using.
But can you name the clubs shown?
This, possibly pre-1900, badge, comes from a Wales international shirt worn by outside-right Billy Meredith.
Winner of 48 caps in his career, he liked to chew a
toothpick during the game.
Happy #StDavidsDay@FAWales@Cymru
Believed to be the oldest #Wales badge in existence, it was awarded to Joseph Harry Williams of Oswestry Town for his only international appearance.
The game on 17th March, 1884 ended with a 4-0 defeat at Wrexham’s Racecourse Ground to England.
Happy #StDavidsDay@Wrexham_AFC
Ever noticed the phoenix on the Coventry City badge?
It was introduced into the town coat of arms as a positive emblem of hope and rebirth after the city was devastated by german bombs during WWII.
@covcampus@CoventrySphinx@Coventry_City
quite right....
....and how Prince Ruperts Tower has been adapted and replaced to be relevant to the the local supporters club....
from #TheBeautifulBadge
𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | THE BEAUTIFUL HISTORY by Elspeth Wills. Martyn Routledge
Charts the fascinating story of Britain through club badges, featuring over 100 clubs with each badge coming alive to reveal the story behind it.
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25 March 1972
#BirminghamCity launch a new #clubbadge (designed by Michael Wood - a Gas Engineer from Walsall) that echoed their ambitions...
"It is forward looking and introduces the globe and the idea of European football which is what everyone at the Blues wants to see’
🏴 Leeds United Badge, 1973.
For us young'uns (I say as a 27 year old 🙃) this may seem like a basic football badge design. But it actually packs a fair whack of history and thought behind it.
Leeds United were flying high under manager Don Revie in 1973, and the manager…
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