Club Crest Origins

[Cyncoed Slumdog]

Interesting story which I'd never heard before.
https://www.thefootballhistoryboys.c...f-city-fc.html

[The Bloop]

Interesting that the 'crest' was used in the match programme but was different to the badge used on the shirt for a while

[jon1959]

I wonder what 'bluebird' was offered to the Western Mail by a local taxidermist in 1921.

I thought our bluebird was an invented bird. The actual bluebird is North American isn't it?

[the other bob wilson]

Interesting story which I'd never heard before.
https://www.thefootballhistoryboys.c...f-city-fc.html

Thanks for that Clive, it is an interesting read and is obviously written by someone who has access to an insider's view so to speak.

However, it does nothing to take away my life long sense of bemusement as to the whole Bluebirds thing. First, although we know there is another club in the Football League now with the same nickname, it's has always rankled a little with me that we and Barrow, unlike other British clubs with ornithological nicknames I can think of, are named after foreign birds (Jon is right, the bluebird is, essentially, a North American bird).

As I say, it has been a source of very mild irritation to me that we have a foreign bird as our nickname and I don't get too worked up about my second point of issue about the Bluebirds either really. However, I have often wondered why what I think of as a swallow has been used to signify a Bluebird on our crest? If you Google bluebird and then go to the images part of what you get back, you'll see nothing like the bird which appears on our badge among the actual birds that are pictured

https://www.google.com/search?q=blue...w=1707&bih=781

I know, I'm over thinking this and our nickname springs from the same thing that Barrow's does (playing in blue and white) with the additional factor for us that it was first used at a time when a play of a successful book called The Bluebird was on at the New Theatre, but if the Bluebirds are to have a bird as their crest, you would think it would look like one

[jon1959]

Bluebird US.jpg

[splott parker]

Bluebird US.jpg

The breast is a touch Vincent Tan influenced.