Tottenham Badge Bird

However notts county is no longer an efl side as they were relegated from league two in the 2018 19 season along with yeovil town. Tottenham said they had to protect the clubs identity. Pretty amazing that a bunch of 15 year olds from a cricket team met to talk about setting up a football team together and that over 125 years later that team now one of englands grandest football clubs known the world over plays its football just yards from that very spot.
tottenham badge bird

The idea to use it on the emblem was suggested in the 1880s by the club secretary tom smith.

Tottenham badge bird. Tottenham hotspur clothing stores with their football logo. Tottenham hotspur football club commonly referred to as tottenham t t en e m or spurs is an english professional football club in tottenham london that competes in the premier league. Harry hotspur was the shakespearean character that lived in tottenham. Joking aside they actually met under a lamppost on the corner of the high road park lane.

Elsewhere around the footballing globe birds become less frequent upon badges for example extensive research of brasilian teams only produced two bird bearing sides namely uniao sao joao ec with their macaw. I also have an unusual variety of the 1958 badge with no bird name or date on the reverse and modern makers logo. The wessex league division one club said it was heavy handed and changing their badge would cost them between 3000 to 4000. Its cuz back in the day harry hotspur used messenger birds with a spur on its leg so that people trying to intercept the message would get spiked and let it go.

Tottenham hotspur stadium has been the clubs home ground since april 2019 replacing their former home of white hart lane which had been demolished to make way for the new stadium on the same. The visual identity of the famous british football club has had many redesigns throughout the teams history. Last i checked the newcastle united badge had seahorses. The bird seen on the current west bromwich albion fc logo is a throstle song thrush.

Established in 1882 the club used various images of spurs as its logo but the first official badge appeared only at the beginning of the 1920s and this was when the bird was taken as the teams symbol. Since the 1921 fa cup final the tottenham hotspur crest has featured a cockerel. The throstle hasnt always looked the same though. Interesting bit of trivia i learned from fifa.

Or so the story goes anyway. Harry hotspur from whom the club is said to have taken its name wore riding spurs and his fighting cocks were. Tottenham hotspurs cockerel has become a very iconic symbol to the club and is well known across europe.