The Friday List of Little or No Consequence #103

In hoc signo vinces
13 Latin Mottoes Associated With British Football Clubs And Their Badges

1. Victoria Concordia Crescit ("Victory comes from harmony - Arsenal (old badge))
2. Arte et labore ("By skill and labour" - Blackburn Rovers)
3. Vim promovet insitam ("Promotes your inner power" - Bristol City)
4. Vincit Omnia Industria ("Hard work overcomes everything" - Bury)
5. Sic itur astra ("Thus we reach the stars" - Elgin City)
6. Nil satis nisi optimum ("Nothing but the best is good enough" - Everton)
7. Domus clamantium ("Home of the shouting men" - Gillingham)
8. Confidemus ("Let us have confidence" - Kilmarnock)
9. Superbia in proelia ("Pride in battle" - Manchester City)
10. Ludere causa ludendi ("To play for the sake of playing" - Queens Park)
11. Consilio et anamis ("Intelligence and courage" - Sheffield Wednesday)
12. Animo et Fide ("With courage and faith" - Stockport County)
13. Audere est facere ("To dare is to do" - Tottenham Hotspur)

New Badge Alert (kind of...) - Derby County

Well looky here - another new Premier League club badge... well, sort of.

Not really a new badge in the truest sense of the word, but instead a new interpretation of an old badge courtesy of Derby County.

Replacing this, we now have this...

Out goes the gold ribbon below the ram and in its place comes a double-circle featuring the full name of Billy Davies' newly-promoted team.

The badge will appear on Derby County's new Adidas kit which is launched next month, but in the meantime, how do we feel about it? Myself, I think the circle looks a lot better than the ribbon, but the lettering looks a little bit, well, 'seventies-ish'. That being the case, I think it might look a bit old-fashioned before long, but we'll see.

Perhaps the real question to ask here (particularly to any Derby fans dropping by) is whether you prefer the circular badge, the ribbon badge or the badge which preceded them both which had just the plain old ram and nothing else? Speaking for myself, I'd go for the latter of those three but this one seems harmless enough.

Let us know what you think. Does it give you that ram-bo feeling or does it leave you a little (ahem) sheepish?

The Friday List of Little or No Consequence #14

The way we were...
8 English Football Club Badges That Are No Longer In Use

1. Aston Villa



2. Reading



3. Leeds United



4. Derby County



5. Tottenham Hotspur



6. Manchester City



7. Sunderland



8. Wigan Athletic

New Middlesbrough Badge - You decide...

Unbelievably, some two weeks to the day after we told you about the new Aston Villa badge, we now have a new Middlesbrough badge to contend with.

Out goes this one, and in comes this new one...

...which, you can't fail to agree, is a step up the evolutionary design ladder from the crayon drawings that Fulham and Villa ended up with.

It looks a bit old and archaic to me, though. Perhaps not dynamic enough for the 21st century. Anyway, the club assures us that the new badge has been designed to remind everyone of the club's 131-year history rather than just the period since 1986 when the club was reborn following some nasty business involving liquidation. Quite why they felt the need to redesign the badge twenty-one years ago to celebrate that, I don't quite know, but still...

So what do you think of the new badge? Crusty old relic from the dim and distant past or a symbol of pride in the history of the club. Tell us your views by leaving us a comment...

New Aston Villa Badge - You decide...

In case you weren't already aware, Aston Villa have announced they now have a new badge. Out goes the existing design, and in comes the replacement...

For what my opinion's worth (and that's probably not a lot), I think it looks distinctly like the product of an under-14's art competition. But wait - Aston Villa's website ensures us that there's sound reasoning behind the new design:

After being ommitted from the previous badge... the letters FC have been re-introduced.

At the expense of your team's full name?!?! It gets better...

The famous lion also has a different look. Gone is the fragmented image seen on previous Villa badges. The lion is now proud, looking to the future and unified - signalling our desire for togetherness.

What a load of rubbish. Oh and they've added a white star to represent their European Cup victory in 1982. The perfect finishing touch...

As you can tell, I'm not impressed. What do you think? Leave us a comment and make your feelings known!

The Friday List of Little or No Consequence #8

Looks familiar...
Seven Team Badges Currently Under Investigation By The Fraud Squad


1. Feyenoord of Rotterdam? No! It's Feyenoord Academy of Ghana!


2. Glasgow Rangers? Of course not! That's Hong Kong Rangers!


3. AS Roma? Why no... you're getting confused with St. Catherine's Roma Wolves of Canada!


4. Ajax Amsterdam? No way! That'll be Ajax Cape Town, silly!


5. Arsenal FC? Not quite - Berekum Arsenal of Ghana...


6. Sporting Lisbon? Wrong again! It's Sporting Clube da Praia, Cape Verde...


7. Surely this must be Sporting Lisbon? No? How about Sporting Clube da Praia? Not even them?!? No, you'll kick yourselves - it's Sporting Clube de Goa, India...

The Christmas Quiz

Just the other day I thought I'd sit down and write an article all about club badges and how they vary in style and design from city to city.

But then I thought "Where's the fun in that?!!? Let's turn it into a quiz... and as it's Christmas, let's make it..."

THE GREAT BIG 'SOME PEOPLE ARE ON THE PITCH' CHRISTMAS QUIZ!

And so I did. Here's how to play: below you'll see the badges for 10 football clubs, all of which currently reside in the lower reaches of the Coca-Cola league. All you've got to do is name the clubs they belong to. Simple... or not, as the case may be.

There's no prize on offer, but you'll potentially gain loads of kudos with your mates down the pub if you submit your answers and score 10 out of 10, so get cracking and see how well you know your lesser-known teams...



... Oh, and one more thing - have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!