Looks like the sort of thing I might have bought on a t shirt outside the ground when I was 19 but the badge should have a bit more class like the 1992 championship winning one
Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Jan 2018, at 18:18, Jim Moran <[email protected]> wrote: > > The bloke's explaining it away on Radio Leeds now. He's talking bollocks. > "The salue is something the fans said Leeds United owned". WRONG. The fans > own the salute, they're saluting the badge. How can the badge be a fan > saluting the badge?? Makes no sense. > > It'll never see the light of day. > > And it's killed off the salute for many fans too. > > No-one does a farce quite like Leeds United > >> On 24 January 2018 at 17:15, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Lurkdom mode - OFF. >> >> Once we abandoned the City of Leeds badge, sometime in the 1960's I think, >> we then seemed to change our badge every other year. >> It wasn't until the "rose and ball" one - the one we won the 1992 >> Championship with - that we settled down to some season after season >> continuity. >> It lasted a good few seasons, long enough, I thought, to establish itself >> as our "new" traditional badge. I'd love for that one to return. >> I never took to Ridsdale's living the (European) dream replacement. >> >> The current proposal? Supposedly it's for our 100th anniversary. >> I could buy into it, if it was only for the one season, and perhaps if the >> hand on the chest was a hand over our traditional badge... whatever that is. >> If it mobilises support and enthusiasm and helps us get back to the top >> level in time for our 100th year, then maybe we should endorse it. Doesn't >> sound as if it will though. >> Celebrating the Leeds salute? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have the >> uncomfortable feeling that it started appearing when the NF were trying to >> take over our terraces at the end of the 1970s >> So for me it's bit too close to a Nazi salute to be totally at ease with >> it. >> >> Finally, a question on the 100th anniversary that I've been meaning to ask. >> Didn't Ken Bates' shenanigans kill off the 1919 club? >> Isn't the club we're supporting now some new creation of his, barely 10 >> years old? >> >> Regards everyone >> >> John >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard Walker [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 24 January 2018 15:59 >> To: Richard Naef <[email protected]>; errand. fivefold < >> [email protected]>; Ted <[email protected]>; Graham Farr < >> [email protected]> >> Cc: Leeds List ([email protected]) <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [LU] another new crest / badge >> >> Quite like it mysen. Leeds salute is part of our history. I remember being >> in many away end when someone spots someone in the home end doing a secret >> Leeds salute. Minute later it kicks off. >> Huddersfield was the classic. Their whole stand emptied. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leedslist mailing list >> Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist >> To unsubscribe, email [email protected] >> >> Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ >> >> RIP Jimmy WAC-COE >> > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ > > RIP Jimmy WAC-COE _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: https://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/leedslist/ RIP Jimmy WAC-COE
