Club Badge (merged)

[stonerblue]

Fuck the latin shite off and replace it with, 'aye up luv".

ITS A MUFFIN

 

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

i would mate ... but its best i do absolutely nothing at the moment... til we know more about what is going on.

No worries mate. I think it'd be great to see several tweaks of your one though, to put to the club as a proposal. To get discussion flowing and help reach a consensus.

Think we need more people to join in as well. Get lots of different creative minds on it and lots of different examples to look at.

Hopefully something like that will happen and we'll all get a vote.

 

[Ricster]

2nd badge for me.

Does the eagle have a meaning? Should never have changed the badge in the first place.
Loads of Aussies saying the 3rd badge which im really disappointed about

 

[Bunk]

I hope we get the Maltese Cross in there on a roundel designed.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Manchester City - ruining new badge tattoos since this coming Saturday ;)

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Should never have changed the badge in the first place.

We had to. Turned out Eddie Phillips - who ran the souvenir shop at Maine Road - owned the rights to the badge, not the club.
So when Frannie Lee decided the 60K a season Phillips gave to the club for the privilege of running the shop was a right Swales stitch up, and told Phillips where to go, Phillips took his badge with him and went.

 

[Gabriel]

Rather fear that a design will already be agreed upon and that any fan consultation is merely being done to give the decision a degree of authority. Hope I'm wrong, but too many clubs hire image consultants to talk about the 'brand' now and 'going forward', yet these people have little idea about the club's past and tradition.

 

[Gary James]

The 3 stripes do not represent the three rivers, it's a myth. This part of the first badge is actually a shield from the coat of arms of the De Grelley family, issued to Roger De Grelley. The De Grelleys were the feudal lords of Manchester when it was issued with its charter in 1301.

Source Manchester.gov.uk

Also as mentioned on previous pages the 3 main historical colours are sky/ Cambridge blue, white and navy blue. (Though I do prefer what is/ was known as maroon)

For me the ship is the biggest constant on the badge, but it would be bare as a symbol on its own.

I grew up with the red rose and shield badges but I think that a new one should be a stripped down version of the current one without the budgie and fast food stars.

Edit: the definition of Cambridge blue has altered over the years and the original colour is not the same as Cambridge university rowing colours

You're right that Manchester Council now say that about the 'rivers' but there is ambiguity and when City first started using the lines the council still claimed they represented the rivers. Since that time, City have always said that on 'our' badge the lines mean the rivers so, although Manchester Council now claim otherwise, City continued to talk of the lines as rivers. I'll explain more at the talks I'm doing.

I do think this is a major opportunity for us to promote what we want as fans. I don't believe there's another club anywhere in the world that has consulted with fans in the way City will. We've seen clubs get this wrong so many times but, like almost everything else City have done in recent years, this looks like it's going to be good. I'd urge everyone to speak their minds and to make suggestions. This isn't about picking one of 3 past badges, but about having a badge that will be appropriate for the future. We never got the chance in 72 or 97 to say what we wanted from our badge and so now's the time to make feelings known. A great opportunity for us all.

 

[Innsbruckblue]

In my opinion, the badge must have two elements:

It should be round
It should say Manchester City FC, not MCFC

 

[Gary James]

Apologies to those politically offended by the Daily Mail, but there's a good article here which goes in to a lot more depth than the other ones I've read:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...es-crest-bid-resolve-long-running-debate.html

Interesting that the Mail has included the wrong badges in their piece. That eagle badge is definitely incorrect - look at the motto for starters!