8, why have Rangers got Villa's badge on their wall?
Interesting. Very similar in appearance and effectively the same motto underneath. Is there something connecting a lion in that posture with "being prepared", I wonder?
What two teams are playing on picture 8 think it could be Chelsea v Sheff Wed half final 1966
According to Wiki that game was at Villa Park, so i'm wondering if Brum are playing Chelsea but for some reason (Cup game?) are wearing white.
I ballsed up that question because I reasoned if it was St Andrews, Birmingham City would have been playing at home in blue - and neither team wore blue kit in the photo.
And I've been to St Andrews enough times ........ !
8, why have Rangers got Villa's badge on their wall?
Both badges are taken from the lion rampant on the Scottish Standard. This heraldic design is very important north of the border and has a history dating back some 1,000 years. Presumably to a time when prides of Panthera leo could be seen strolling around the glens. It's therefore easy to see why Rangers adopted the symbol.
Villa introduced their lion (originally reversed) in 1878. The cover story was that it was in honour of several Scottish players the club had "The Scottish Contingent". It seems though that club administrator William McGregor, the founding father of The Football League no less, was the sort of Scottish teetotal Wesleyan who would have enjoyed nothing better than foisting his own heritage onto others. Interestingly, due to a problem with the club's laundry the badge was almost immediately removed from Villa's shirts and didn't make a return until 1957. In that time they had changed their colours from all black the the claret and blue they have today.
The badges of Chelsea, Middlesbrough and Millwall also feature rampant lions and there are clear trends between the three: None are Scottish, all are chavvy. Fair play to Chelsea and Middlesbrough though, whose badges are apparently adaptations of local crests. Millwall fans are still fighting amongst themselves as to the origins of theirs, though. Some say it is the Scottish Lion, others claim that it was because there was a taste for things African down in the docks at the time they were formed, whilst a third argument is that they became known as the lions due to some early giant killings in the cup. Yeah, right!
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Thought Ibrox was Villa and Leeds was Chelsea
Got the Ibrox one wrong, thought the badge on the stand in the background was Aston Villas!
Those crowds, what a memory.
Strangely, got the St Andrews one wrong!
And I've been to St Andrews enough times ........ !
Villa introduced their lion (originally reversed) in 1878. The cover story was that it was in honour of several Scottish players the club had "The Scottish Contingent". It seems though that club administrator William McGregor, the founding father of The Football League no less, was the sort of Scottish teetotal Wesleyan who would have enjoyed nothing better than foisting his own heritage onto others. Interestingly, due to a problem with the club's laundry the badge was almost immediately removed from Villa's shirts and didn't make a return until 1957. In that time they had changed their colours from all black the the claret and blue they have today.
The badges of Chelsea, Middlesbrough and Millwall also feature rampant lions and there are clear trends between the three: None are Scottish, all are chavvy. Fair play to Chelsea and Middlesbrough though, whose badges are apparently adaptations of local crests. Millwall fans are still fighting amongst themselves as to the origins of theirs, though. Some say it is the Scottish Lion, others claim that it was because there was a taste for things African down in the docks at the time they were formed, whilst a third argument is that they became known as the lions due to some early giant killings in the cup. Yeah, right!
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Both Villa's Trinity Road Stand and The South Stand at Ibrox were designed by the same engineer and share certain similarities.
These are just 2 of the many photos that the museum have
Must be 1000s of others that need sorting and digitalising.