Our team's badge

[Slinky Skills]

I was looking at LFC's badge the other day and was curious as to why there's a thistle and a Scotish X inside an oval shape above where it says "you'll never walk alone" in the middle.

Does anyone know why?

[kev776]

Maybe because our first Chairman/Manager and 9 of our very first 11 were Joackanese.

[Mark79]

Thats the Shankly Gates mate and where was Bill Shankly was from...

Edit: ****, have i just bitten?

[Natman]

Its from the Shankly gates

[Kenneth]

From the guy who designed the crest:

Hello Matt,
I think you're spot on with that, the section at the top of the crest as you know is a distillation of the decoration on the Shankly gates, I designed a simplified version that would work on the crest and followed the elements that are on the gates so that is about as much authority I can have on the matter but if my memory serves me right and looking at it I'd say that's right.
Also I had a look on the forum and noticed your moniker, do you really have a tattoo of my Liver bird ? very impressed ! looks great, could you send me a jpeg of it ?

Thanks,
Peter

Ok, so that didn't help much but basically, it's from the Shankly Gates, and it's the Scottish flag and thistle in memory of him as a great Scott.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=230523.0

[gentingfrmhell]

intresting

[Molby]

I don't know if anybody else agrees with me - but i actually prefer the single liver bird as a badge, just like in the old days...

[Vermilion]

I don't know if anybody else agrees with me - but i actually prefer the single liver bird as a badge, just like in the old days...

Think we should use both myself, on different shirts, but i don't like how the Shankly Gates on the shirt badge are done in green.

[Slinky Skills]

Cheers guys, very interesting that.

I had a feeling it may have been something to do with Bill Shankly, I was thinking it may have been some connection to Celtic as they also sing You'll Never Walk Alone.

Cheers.

[Matt]

From the guy who designed the crest:



Ok, so that didn't help much but basically, it's from the Shankly Gates, and it's the Scottish flag and thistle in memory of him as a great Scott.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/...topic=230523.0

By the sound of the end of that email, he's grooming you...

[CJ]

i prefer our old badge

however i think we should stick with the current one

[Kenneth]

By the sound of the end of that email, he's grooming you...

I am not Matt. I just copy and pasted a post from RAWK, presumably by a tattooed guy called Matt.

[-V-]

Coz the clubs scottish ;-)

[Redspin]

Cheers guys, very interesting that.

I had a feeling it may have been something to do with Bill Shankly, I was thinking it may have been some connection to Celtic as they also sing You'll Never Walk Alone.

Cheers.

Why would we associate ourselves with Celtic on that very flimsy basis? Teams in Germany and Holland also sing YNWA and no doubt in other countries too

[Kenneth]

Why would we associate ourselves with Celtic on that very flimsy basis? Teams in Germany and Holland also sing YNWA and no doubt in other countries too

Catholic population in Liveprool has been historically large relative to other cities (Irish migrants I guess). Another flimsy reason, I agree.

Anyway, I think our crest looks ****. Understand that it's nice to have the flames in the design, so I would probably keep them somehow, but the Shankly gates stuff looks messy, like a poncy hat. And the shape of the main badge, it looks like a cheap school badge.