The Beautiful Badge: The Stories Behind the Football Club Badge

by Elspeth Wills and Martyn Routledge

The Beautiful Badge tells the fascinating story behind the UK's football club badges, from 1860s hand-embroidered symbols on home-knitted jerseys to today's multi-million pound brands. The book not only covers hammers, cannon and Liver birds but also reveals the link between Peterhead FC and Viz comic; which TV celebrity designed Aldershot Town FC's badge; and whose GBP10 doodle became the opposition's badge. Some clubs have sported ten or more different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785313924
• ISBN13: 9781785313929
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.7"