Makes me appreciate Jimmy Sirrel!

[Booker4]

He may have being the ugliest man in the world and not the best manager we've ever had! But, at least he did design a decent badge unlike Leeds having apparently consulted with 10,000 Leeds fansI! Ha ha! Oh dear!



I really don't like it when club chairman come in and decide to change the clubs badge, because they prefer another design and then usually make a mess of it like above and our nearest neghbours!

 

[ElephantBlade]

I get the need to spruce it up sometimes but that is an absolute monstrosity!

I think ours is one of a few badges that stands the test of time and don't know how you'd improve it or would ever need to.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Thought it was Jimmy Hagan who designed our club crest?

This from the Dirties would have looked good in 1930s Germany

 

[ucandomagic]

Sirrell only decided to use it - I think it was Hagan who actually designed the cross-swords badge much earlier.

 

[vorpal blade]

yes, I'm sure this has been addressed in the "Old Photos for no Reason Whatsoever" thread (but its a longer story than the new testament so good luck finding it), with a photo of our squad with the current badge on their blazers back in the 1940s or 50s .... it predates Jimmy Sirrell by 30 odd years.

 

[GrayBlade]

What a shocker! It looks like something you’d see in a kid’s comic, worst I’ve seen. Then again....

 

[bromtom]

It's that bad even the bloke on the badge is covering the badge up.

 

[Booker4]

Thought it was Jimmy Hagan who designed our club crest?

This from the Dirties would have looked good in 1930s Germany

Ah right, always thought it was Sirrel. Can't find anything on the net either way, but I see you're not the only one saying Hagan designed it so you're probably right.

 

[DifferentClass]

Oh fucking DEAR.

Is that badge real?!

 

[Booker4]

Oh fucking DEAR.

Is that badge real?!

Yes but probably - sadly - not for long! See link!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42803838

As one Leeds fan said, it looks like something off Pro Evo! I've noticed over the years that Leeds fans have a similarity with Wednesday fans in that both have an inflated opinion of how good their fans are and how big their club is and how apparently the salute with the fist is now a symbol for Leeds! They're welcome to it!

 

[Isar]

I have just checked the calendar and it is not the 1st of April.

 

[DifferentClass]

Yes but probably - sadly - not for long! See link!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42803838

As one Leeds fan said, it looks like something off Pro Evo! I've noticed over the years that Leeds fans have a similarity with Wednesday fans in that both have an inflated opinion of how good their fans are and how big their club is and how apparently the salute with the fist is now a symbol for Leeds! They're welcome to it!

Good God this is brilliant.

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

I get the need to spruce it up sometimes but that is an absolute monstrosity!

I think ours is one of a few badges that stands the test of time and don't know how you'd improve it or would ever need to.

Perhaps a gold star (or two) above it on the jersey ?

 

[ucandomagic]

For me the badge is not about your club - the shirt does that - the badge should place the club in its social location. Hence ours is perfect - a Yorkshire rose and a symbol of our working class heritage in steel, also matching our nickname.

Leeds similarly should have the rose and a symbol of the textile industry such as a power loom. What they have got is something designed by trendies responding to reactions from 14 year old kids.

Football clubs that lose their history become businesses with an associated football team.

 

[grafikhaus]

 

[TJB.]

Tin hat on, but I wouldn't mind a badge change for ourselves. I'd whip up what I have in mind but I'm not very good with Illustrator and the like.

Not that there's owt wrong with ours!

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

He may have being the ugliest man in the world and not the best manager we've ever had! But, at least he did design a decent badge unlike Leeds having apparently consulted with 10,000 Leeds fansI! Ha ha! Oh dear!

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I really don't like it when club chairman come in and decide to change the clubs badge, because they prefer another design and then usually make a mess of it like above and our nearest neghbours!

I’m sure Mussolini would have approved. I also seem to remember some sort of aliens on Star Trek making a salute similar to that.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Think the history around our badge was Hagan & Sirrell had gone out for a heavy Sunday afternoon session darn ‘Cliffe after coming out of the seeing the strippers in the Dog & Partridge and coming out blindo ,they decided they needed sustenance so across the road to the Indus knowing that the ‘Slamma wasn’t licenced .
At this point while waiting for his Chicken Bhuna & Pilau ,Hagan noticed a crossed Blades emblem on his bottle of Cobra here is the original picture taken with his pin hole camera & digitally enhanced using the latest technology

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

 

[The Hobott]

I actually don't mind it. Don't want it though.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

yes, I'm sure this has been addressed in the "Old Photos for no Reason Whatsoever" thread (but its a longer story than the new testament so good luck finding it), with a photo of our squad with the current badge on their blazers back in the 1940s or 50s .... it predates Jimmy Sirrell by 30 odd years.

Correct, Jimmy Hagan decided the club blazer needed a club badge and designed something for that. Later when Sheffield Council put the copyright on the coat of arms and we needed a new badge they used the Hagan design as the basis for the new one.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Correct, Jimmy Hagan decided the club blazer needed a club badge and designed something for that. Later when Sheffield Council put the copyright on the coat of arms and we needed a new badge they used the Hagan design as the basis for the new one.

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That is a superb photo

 

[Seanshoreham]

Jimmy Sirrel was strikingly handsome compared to Gerry Young

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Jimmy Sirrel was strikingly handsome compared to Gerry Young

Jimmy could trap a ball better than Young,but then again who couldn't?

 

[blade.i.am]

Looks like a forearm smash to me. Appropriate for their fan base.

 

[BushBlade]

Tin hat on, but I wouldn't mind a badge change for ourselves. I'd whip up what I have in mind but I'm not very good with Illustrator and the like.

Not that there's owt wrong with ours!

So there's nowt wrong with our badge but you still want to change it? That sums up what's wrong with you young people.

 

[Seanshoreham]

Jimmy could trap a ball better than Young,but then again who couldn't?

Well who could forget that fabulous 1966 cup-final

 

[TJB.]

So there's nowt wrong with our badge but you still want to change it? That sums up what's wrong with you young people.

I didn't say I want to; I said I wouldn't mind. But only if it was the design I have in mind

Is 27 young?! I don't feel it!

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I didn't say I want to; I said I wouldn't mind. But only if it was the design I have in mind

Is 27 young?! I don't feel it!

I've got older socks

 

[vorpal blade]

Leeds United change their badge like most of us change our underpants ..... what about this gem from the 1960s (I was completely confused by who the Owls were as a little kid because of this)

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