When Saturday Comes website comments on Rovers Badge

Taken from their weekly howl newsletter that I signed up to some time ago, every week they comment on a badge last week it was FC Baku, http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/4530/33/ ,this week our beloved Bit O'Red :

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Badge of the week
An interesting one, this one. Dan Brown could probably make a bestselling book out of the symbolism here. Of course, Dan Brown could probably make a bestselling book out of a few badly chosen words and a packet of cress. This crest's designers have gone for enigma verging on absurdism.

Central to the image is a football brandishing a flashlight in a cave of red sandstone. Little does the football know that, just out of its torch's range, lurks a trustafarian buried up to his or her head in sand, while the tide gradually, remorselessly seeps ever closer.

On top of the cliffs, powerless to help in view of the treacherous speed of the tides hereabouts, a fox or wolf pads about, awaiting the outcome of the drama unfolding below. Where does one find meaning here? Are we the fox, living our everyday lives while beneath us, in our subconscious, lurk terrors that, once identified, would drive us insane? Are we the football, confident in the belief that our view of the world is all-encompassing but, in reality, allowed merely the view afforded by the width of the beam from a Millets scout torch? Or are we the trustafarian, a pain in the arse? One has to congratulate Sligo for going with the difficult art-house option when so many clubs would settle for the big "S" and a non-illuminated football. Cameron Carter

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But is it a Bit o' Red Supporters Trustafarian?

Response in last fridays WSC Weekly Howl

from Oliver Farry
"Regarding Sligo Rovers' badge mentioned in last week's Howl. The shell is the symbol of Sligo as the town's original name in Irish, Sligeach, means 'shelly beach'. The region's original inhabitants dispensed with their shellfish after eating and gradually created huge middens along the coast. The animal at the top is neither a wolf nor a fox but a wild boar (true, the graphics don't make this obvious). The boar is famous from a tale in Celtic mythology, where High King of Ireland Fionn MacCumhaill contrived the death of Diarmuid, the younger man who had cuckolded him, in a boar hunt. A boar finished Diarmuid off on the slopes of Ben Bulben, which dominates the skyline visible from Rovers' Showgrounds (and under which, WB Yeats rests)."

With such history, tradition and local reference in our Crest, you wonder why the faak would they want to change it to that soulless piece of crap that has been talked about in the last couple of seasons (the one on the MyTeam merchandise).

"Benny da Bull" becomes "Bernard the Boar" then?

"Maeve was Queen in her own right, for the crown of Connacht passed through the female line. Maeve was a valiant warrior and some say an accomplished sorceress. Magnificent but malevolent was Maeve of Connacht, a warrior Queen who sent vast armies to conquer the champions of Ulster and seize the magic bull of Cooley."

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Originally Posted by red_away

"Benny da Bull" becomes "Bernard the Boar" then?

"Maeve was Queen in her own right, for the crown of Connacht passed through the female line. Maeve was a valiant warrior and some say an accomplished sorceress. Magnificent but malevolent was Maeve of Connacht, a warrior Queen who sent vast armies to conquer the champions of Ulster and seize the magic bull of Cooley."

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We're a shoo-in for the Setanta Cup so!!!