Makes me appreciate Jimmy Sirrel!

[Pinchy]

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

...and hiding his face!

 

[TJB.]

Leeds United change their badge like most of us change our underpants ..... what about this gem from the 1960s

This is the part where you should post a photo of your pants from the 1960's.

More skidmarks than Silverstone, I'd imagine

 

[BushBlade]

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!

Yes. I would love to be 27 again. In fact I'd give anything to relive my twenties again. Thirties were good too tbf. Last ten or so years, good bits but a bit meh.
But when I was in my twenties, house music and raving had just broke through, Blades were on a roll, Sheffield was a great place to live and everything still seemed a bit new and exciting. It was like being a kid but with no fucker to tell you what to do and with a bit of cash in your pocket.
Now it's all lease extensions, tax returns and bad backs.

 

[BushBlade]

I've got older socks

I've got a couple of t-shirts I wear for DIY crap that I've had since around the early to mid nineties. And a pair of jeans that I couldn't fit into for about twenty years that I stuck in a draw knowing that one day I'd lose that fucking weight. Which I finally managed to about a year ago.

 

[Harry's Game]

Well Leeds have certainly challenged this one as worst club badge

I give you Derby County

The Distressed Sheep in Curlers drawn by a six year old.

 

[Silent Blade]

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

Well who could forget that fabulous 1966 cup-final

 

[bromtom]

Well Leeds have certainly challenged this one as worst club badge

I give you Derby County

The Distressed Sheep in Curlers drawn by a six year old.

Dot Cotton hiding behind a sideboard isn't it?

 

[Harry's Game]

Dot Cotton hiding behind a sideboard isn't it?

“Oooooh I say”

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[GodricBlade]

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

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This still makes me laugh out loud every time I see it.....

 

[Golden Gordon]

‘Slamma

Spent many a late Saturday night in there, never found anywhere that compares since.
Best onion bhajis in the world ever, bar none!

 

[derfblade.3]

 

[Jon Bon II]

If we were to tweak our crest slightly, I'd be more than happy with this.

(C) DronnieBlade

 

[DronnieBlade]

If we were to tweak our crest slightly, I'd be more than happy with this.

(C) DronnieBlade

I’d love to take credit.

But it is borrowed / robbed

UTB

 

[The Boy Wonder]

Well Leeds have certainly challenged this one as worst club badge What about Bournemouth?!

I give you Derby County

The Distressed Sheep in Curlers drawn by a six year old.

 

[The Boy Wonder]

Bournemouth surely beats Derby's effort?!

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

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!

I always think there's two footballing M1 corridors ... the one of delusion ie dirty Leeds, Pigs, Scabs ... and the one of being down to earth ie us, Derby, Leicester

 

[DifferentClass]

Made some minor improvements to the L**ds mess:

 

[3-GBlade]

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.

Much as i agree with your sentiment, the "BLADES" are nothing to do with the steel industry, they are there to represent the the knife and cutlery trades that flourished in Sheffield for several centuries before "steel" was dreamt of.

The area around the lane was full of small work shops and "Little Mesters" doing their thing, not steel workers - they worked out towards attercliffe, in steel works.

 

[ucandomagic]

Much as i agree with your sentiment, the "BLADES" are nothing to do with the steel industry, they are there to represent the the knife and cutlery trades that flourished in Sheffield for several centuries before "steel" was dreamt of.

The area around the lane was full of small work shops and "Little Mesters" doing their thing, not steel workers - they worked out towards attercliffe, in steel works.

You are right, and I phrased it poorly. However, I was genuinely thinking of the cutlery industry when I put our “heritage in steel”, rather than the production of steel.

Steel was the main material used for cutlery from the mid 19th century when cheap mild steel became available. So at the time that “The Blades” were formed steel had probably become the main material used.

I would agree entirely though that our name represents a distinguished history in tableware in a period going back more than 2 centuries before that.

Mind you, the swords on our badge would more likely have been made in Birmingham. It wouldn’t look quite the same with crossed carving knives though would it?

UTB

 

[ElephantBlade]

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

If only hahaha

 

[Rodley]

Any new badge should have “Dem Blades” written on it and an image of some Unitedite pushing over a pensioner.

 

[JJ Sefton]

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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Is it taking a shit or does it have huge knackers?

 

[speedymcgeady]

Spent many a late Saturday night in there, never found anywhere that compares since.
Best onion bhajis in the world ever, bar none!

 

[vorpal blade]

Is it taking a shit or does it have huge knackers?

I'n not sure that Owls don't regurgitate everything?

AND I have a vague memory that Bournemouth's badge used to be EXACTLY the same as Atalanta's in the 1990s except with different colours .... anyone have any opinions on this ?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I'n not sure that Owls don't regurgitate everything?

AND I have a vague memory that Bournemouth's badge used to be EXACTLY the same as Atalanta's in the 1990s except with different colours .... anyone have any opinions on this ?

I had to go and check that, couldn't remember the Atalanta badge at all. But you're right, it's very similar

 

[Booker4]

Its even better that Mel Sterland is there on that video and associated with the badge mess! But my favourite picture of Mel is below! He looks thinner there then when he played for Leeds and Wednesday!

 

[Booker4]

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

Just wondering mate, that if Hagan designed it much earlier than the design looks distinctively 70's to me, unless Hagan just designed part of it and it was modified later, by Sirrel or otherwise? I'd be interested to know for a fact the origins or the badge.

 

[vorpal blade]

Booker4 ........ well, I think that photo of the squad in their crossed blades in the 1960s does tell its own story BUT, as a callow youth, I used to have an enamel SUSC (sheffield united supporters' club) badge which was rectangular (the initials in each corner), this also bore the crossed swords but I was wondering if this too preceded the circular version that was sewn on the admiral® shirts?

anyone still got one of those badges they could photograph and post on here please?

and I quite liked the Birmingham City badge, I had a set of badges collected from Texaco® Petrol Stations or some other fossil fuel provider in the 1970s, BRUM's real badge had a globe and a football which carried delusions of grandeur (it's Birmingham City freven's sake) but I like this version for its graveyard humour for which the club's supporters are famous, and I also read that in papers and cigarette cards of collections of club's nicknames in the early years of the 20th Century, BCFC were always represented by a black man .... hence the Zulus ?

 

[Geezer]