Is there....

[IOM Blade]

an emblem in English Football that looks as good and symbolise the city as much as ours? There seems to be a current trend for teams to change their badge as regularly as their kits, yet i just can't imagine us doing that and it'll be shoes off in the car park if we ever do!

I think our nickname also has to be up there with the best.

 

[JJ Sefton]

I dont like changes for the sake of them. I think Reading were wrong to ditch the Biscuitmen as their nickname. As daft as it is it does at least have roots in the towns history. Royals is just a relic of the doomed attempt by a doomed megalomaniac to merge two clubs in the 1980's.

 

[Guesty]

Our badge is one of the best, if only by virtue of not having a fucking lion on it!

 

[grafikhaus]

Blades logo, London Underground map, Red telephone box. Modern design classics all.

Also agree about Blades being a 'proper' nickname. Reet manly, like the Rams. Have no truck with these wishy-washy, girlie names like the Toffeemen, Owls etc.

 

[IOM Blade]

Blades logo, London Underground map, Red telephone box. Modern design classics all.

Also agree about Blades being a 'proper' nickname. Reet manly, like the Rams. Have no truck with these wishy-washy, girlie names like the Toffeemen, Owls etc.

Many moons ago Everton used to sport the very cool nickname of the Blackwatch, but ditched it for the Toffeemen!

 

[JohnDenver]

What must never happen - I swear I'll abandon Utd if it does - is a rugby league style lapse in Americanisms.

Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.

*barf*

 

[shorehamview]

There seems to be a current trend for teams to change their badge as regularly as their kits, yet i just can't imagine us doing that and it'll be shoes off in the car park if we ever do!

I think our nickname also has to be up there with the best.

Wendy used to be Blades too.

I dont like changes for the sake of them.

And the United badge has changed a lot, certainly on kits.

There are pictures here www.historicalkits.co.uk of all our home kits.

 

[happyhippy]

I dont like changes for the sake of them. I think Reading were wrong to ditch the Biscuitmen as their nickname. As daft as it is it does at least have roots in the towns history. Royals is just a relic of the doomed attempt by a doomed megalomaniac to merge two clubs in the 1980's.

Really? I thought it was because the biscuit factory shut, and the 'Royals' was just a reference to the Royal County of Berkshire?

I do agree about not changing such things though. Crystal Palace are 'The Glaziers', and not 'The Eagles'.

 

[JJ Sefton]

Really? I thought it was because the biscuit factory shut, and the 'Royals' was just a reference to the Royal County of Berkshire?

I do agree about not changing such things though. Crystal Palace are 'The Glaziers', and not 'The Eagles'.

My understanding is that it was about all that came of Robert Maxwell's attempt to merge Oxford United and Reading into Thames Valley Royals.

 

[happyhippy]

My understanding is that it was about all that came of Robert Maxwell's attempt to merge Oxford United and Reading into Thames Valley Royals.

Which was spectacularly unpopular. I just have only known of them as the Royals. Anyway, it's all away from the main point, which is they shouldn't have changed it!

 

[Ballinpigpubs13]

Blades logo, London Underground map, Red telephone box. Modern design classics all.

Also agree about Blades being a 'proper' nickname. Reet manly, like the Rams. Have no truck with these wishy-washy, girlie names like the Toffeemen, Owls etc.

Talking of girlie names I'm sure the Dirty bastards from up the M1 used to be called " The lilywhites "
Please let this be true, and please make the football league make them go back to it. Being called after a sanitary towel is still too good for them. :bummer:

 

[oldblade]

I certainly like our badge, but it was adopted relatively recently - towards the end of the 1970s (around 1978 - Silent would probably know the exact date) and it's adoption seemed to coincide with the worst collapse in playing fortunes in our history!

 

[happyhippy]

I certainly like our badge, but it was adopted relatively recently - towards the end of the 1970s (around 1978 - Silent would probably know the exact date) and it's adoption seemed to coincide with the worst collapse in playing fortunes in our history!

But it was reputedly designed by Jimmy Hagan, so that outweighs it all!

 

[shorehamview]

But it was reputedly designed by Jimmy Hagan, so that outweighs it all!

It was. hagan designed it, so legend tells, but Jimmy Sirrel decided to adopt it. Either way, it's not a variant on the theme of "wanky nocturnal parrot" that has been used by others.

 

[tomtheblade]

We have the best badge, the best ground and the best nickname in the country. 'Nuff said.