That "bee-arrow" thing is appalling. Appalling. At the moment of realising what was going on I almost felt sick with proxy embarrassment. Why did no-one point out what a terrible idea it was at the concept stage?
Sheffield Utd. Arsenal. Hmm, wonder what else these two teams have in common aside from the weaponry motif?
Both have red and white in their shirts?
Ganga said:
Why are they called that?
Is it a new addition to the crest?
If adding blades, why Arabian?
Sheffield United have had the current badge (with some very minor alterations) since the mid 70's when Jimmy Sirrel was manager. Prior to that for about a decade we wore the Sheffield City crest. For a long time it was stated that Jimmy Sirrel had designed the badge but I read something somewhere at the time of Jimmy's death last year that the badge had actually been designed by Jimmy Hagan about 20 years prior to its adoption.
I'm not sure about why the particular style of blade was used, I suspect because the curve fitted better with the circular design than a straight blade would have done, but I'm only guessing. The rest of the badge has a simple elegance - club colours, white rose of Yorkshire, date of formation, team name. I'm happy with it anyway.
Little known fact - the same bloke who designed those Barrow and Congleton crests was also responsible for the original, rejected badge for Rushden and Diamonds:
I may be jumping to assumptions, but I reckon that Lekhwiya SC of the Qatar Stars League is the only club which has what appears to be a tooled up T.E. Lawrence vainly urging a reluctant camel into the Battle of Aqaba against the Ottoman Empire as a crest.
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