Post by shoos on Dec 4, 2007 20:29:19 GMT
Now and again, if someone passes me one for free - I like to look at the efforts other clubs make on their fanzines n stuff... lookin at the latest one from Stoke the other day (The Oatcake) I found this article:
(A picture of our old club badge) in their badge parade section:
"Shrewsbury's impressive badge can be traced back to the days when Town were a hopeless conference dodging team at the bottom of Division 4.
The original features were headless chickens but these were deemed a little defeatist and therefore replaced with Lion's heads. The Lions were commissioned by in 1974 by then chairman Bob Fiddler. Devout heavy metal fan Fiddler demanded the Lions incorporate features of both Led Zepplin and Kiss, which explains the Robert Plant manes and Gene Simmons tongues on each beast on the left and right. The Lion at the bottom is holding a party squeaker in its jaws as the commission date was also Mr. fiddler's birthday.
Adorning the top of the crest is a seven finger capacity knuckleduster, in homage to the feared Shrewsbury firm, the Salopian Inbred Army. The motto inscribed on toilet paper scroll is in Welsh and translates as "we're Taffs, and we know we are."..."
Now, ignoring the obvious poor grammar and unprofessional journalistic style you'd expect from the uneducated f***wits there - and that their research failed to recognise this as no longer our club badge (they keep referring to it in the present tense throughout) - what prompted an onslaught like this I wonder???
Maybe it's just another example of guys who know they're pretty much at the lowest rung of the food chain, and the only way to feel better about it is to attack those better then them. Either way surely we owe 'em a response?
(A picture of our old club badge) in their badge parade section:
"Shrewsbury's impressive badge can be traced back to the days when Town were a hopeless conference dodging team at the bottom of Division 4.
The original features were headless chickens but these were deemed a little defeatist and therefore replaced with Lion's heads. The Lions were commissioned by in 1974 by then chairman Bob Fiddler. Devout heavy metal fan Fiddler demanded the Lions incorporate features of both Led Zepplin and Kiss, which explains the Robert Plant manes and Gene Simmons tongues on each beast on the left and right. The Lion at the bottom is holding a party squeaker in its jaws as the commission date was also Mr. fiddler's birthday.
Adorning the top of the crest is a seven finger capacity knuckleduster, in homage to the feared Shrewsbury firm, the Salopian Inbred Army. The motto inscribed on toilet paper scroll is in Welsh and translates as "we're Taffs, and we know we are."..."
Now, ignoring the obvious poor grammar and unprofessional journalistic style you'd expect from the uneducated f***wits there - and that their research failed to recognise this as no longer our club badge (they keep referring to it in the present tense throughout) - what prompted an onslaught like this I wonder???
Maybe it's just another example of guys who know they're pretty much at the lowest rung of the food chain, and the only way to feel better about it is to attack those better then them. Either way surely we owe 'em a response?