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Paul Pot posted:stupid, fat, nfl, red white blue...no wonder they're america's favorite soccer team
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Paul Pot posted:stupid, fat, nfl, red white blue...no wonder they're america's favorite soccer team Majority of people in the US don't know who the gently caress Arsenal is.
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Aug 3, 2010 20:38
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real_scud posted:...except they're nowhere near as popular in the states as United or even Liverpool/Chelsea I think are more popular here than Arsenal. Based on my experience United and Chelsea are miles ahead of Arsenal and Pool who are about even.
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Aug 3, 2010 20:45
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Yeah Chelsea is far more loved in the US.... but don't ask them to name more than 2 players.
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Aug 3, 2010 21:42
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How is it possible for a relatively small club like Chelsea to achieve such international popularity?
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Pissflaps posted:How is it possible for a relatively small club like Chelsea to achieve such international popularity? I hear money helps, also winning trophies with aforementioned money.
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Aug 3, 2010 21:45
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Putting five total matches on ESPN is good too, when three of them are Chelsea matches.
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Pissflaps posted:How is it possible for a relatively small club like Chelsea to achieve such international popularity? Obviously a lot of Americans have descendants from Chelsea
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thehappyprince posted:Obviously a lot of Americans have descendants from Chelsea Plymouth Argyle, Portsmouth, Liverpool and Bristol to get their own US TV deal?
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Kiros posted:Yeah Chelsea is far more loved in the US.... but don't ask them to name more than 2 players. Being an American who actually goes to MLS games I can tell you that most people in the US support one of Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool. It's not a surprise really. When you start getting into actual supporter's sections though the amount of teams supported diversifies. I know plenty of Fulham, Villa, Tottenham fans in my supporter's group. There's even a Stoke fan. That's just the Premiership as there are plenty of Bundesliga fans too. Pretty much every Spanish speaking person I work with that watches football supporters either United, Milan, Real Madrid, or Barcelona. They're all from Central America though and don't really have ties to teams.
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Aug 3, 2010 21:54
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Paul Pot posted:It's nothing special, but quite the improvement over that christmas carol thing. No it isn't. It's bland, the wrong shape, and doesn't have the motto. The old one was awesome.
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Aug 3, 2010 22:10
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Guesstimate Jones posted:Is there a place online to get scarves that aren't The Glory Four? try Subside Sports or World Soccer Shop, who have a whole department for them.
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Paul Pot posted:
let me clarify, it's an improvement, but it is also Everything Wrong With Modern Crest Design in one lovely package, with its silly looking bevel effects, pointless addition of additional colors, and three-dimensional nonsense. that crest looked dated just a few years after it came out. gently caress, the only good thing i can say about it is that it doesn't include a gradient.
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Aug 3, 2010 22:26
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Fag Boy Jim posted:let me clarify, it's an improvement, but it is also Everything Wrong With Modern Crest Design in one lovely package, with its silly looking bevel effects, pointless addition of additional colors, and three-dimensional nonsense. that crest looked dated just a few years after it came out. Just loving make it all the same shade of red ffs.
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Aug 3, 2010 22:32
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real_scud posted:No but it does have a loving idiotic and pointless two-tone background of different shades of red that continues to piss me off. But the darker, mulberry shade is a historic remnant of the grand and storied tradition of the club, while the new, brighter shade is go-getting and modern, signifying Arsenal moving forward as a club?
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ibroxmassive posted:But the darker, mulberry shade is a historic remnant of the grand and storied tradition of the club, while the new, brighter shade is go-getting and modern, signifying Arsenal moving forward as a club?  I'd really love to know wtf the designer of the logo was thinking when he did the two sides different colors. Whenever I've ever attempted to re-create the crest in a videogame or some other nerdy things, I always make it one color in an attempt to get back at that bastard.
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Aug 3, 2010 22:37
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visually they didn't change united's badge much, but what they did change was absolutely emblematic of a horrible shift in ideology
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real_scud posted:
You can see when they're side by side that the red on the right hand side is the same shade as the old crest, I'm guessing the new one is for the reasons I said, even jokingly.
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Aug 3, 2010 22:40
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harperdc posted:try Subside Sports or World Soccer Shop, who have a whole department for them. Subside sports also has a whole department for them with more club offerings. WSS is pretty much limited to MLS scarfs, a few English teams and a ton of international teams.
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as long as we're talking about crest redesigns, I love Villa's  the new one looks loving great when it's put on a shirt, the old one with the stripes just looked messy
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A star that means something, well done.
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I like our new badge.
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Milan's badge has stayed relatively static for most of its history but at one point (I think in the early eighties, I was too young to remember) we had this No lie, it kinda ruled.
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Madrid's just because I was curious:
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<----Best crest
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calcio posted:<----Best crest Did you draw it yourself?
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Pissflaps posted:Did you draw it yourself? Intent was easy adaptation by spray paint and cut-out wielding, stabby hooligan scum.
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While on the subject of terrible crest redesigns, I submit my local team, FC Den Bosch: Classy as gently caress.  Stoned Dragon breathing on a volleyball.
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Just discovered Ajax's old logo, holy crap is it gorgeous. Edit: While searching for Ajax's logo through the years I discovered this gem http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11956&page=83. Jesus Christ. BoomtownRat fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Aug 4, 2010 |
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 It'll be back sooner or later  In actual kit news, City's home kit has burgundy on the socks. (Click New Home Kit, obviously) I can't for the life of me think why they've chosen this colour, makes it look like City forget theirs and had to borrow Villa/West Ham's. There's some marketing spiel bullshit about HIGH CONTRAST STRIPES THAT ALLOWS TEAM MATES TO SPOT EACH OTHER INSTANTLY, but historically I don't think there's any precedent for it. How bizarre.
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real_scud posted:No but it does have a loving idiotic and pointless two-tone background of different shades of red that continues to piss me off. it makes the badges on the shirt look pretty sweet irl
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Fulham From  to  I don't know what the gently caress happened. I guess I quite like just how simple it is now, but it still seems like a shame that the crest is so generic.
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Thailand has the best club logos. They're so ott that even American sports teams look on in shock and awe.           
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Aug 4, 2010 10:16
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They will be dancing in the streets of Nakhonratchasima tonight!
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SWAT CAT. But yeah you all know I don't have much love for Arsenal but that old crest, when you get a version without the horrible gradient, looks classy. It's a shame what they did to it, much like the hatchet job on United's crest.
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Couch posted:I like our new badge. I miss the latin motto 
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I think I unironically prefer the old crest design for every team in the premier league.
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Daniel posted:I think I unironically prefer the old crest design for every team in the premier league.  Even Im not sure if I prefer this one to the new one, I like them both
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Daniel posted:I think I unironically prefer the old crest design for every team in the premier league. I still hate Chelsea for ripping off our 1986 crest. edit - Okay, so they had it first but their newest one still looks too much like our post-liquidation crest for my liking. Dell_Zincht fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Aug 4, 2010 |
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