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    The English Football League

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34800391

    Football League to be rebranded as 'EFL' at end of 2015-16 season

    The Football League is to be renamed the "English Football League" (EFL) from the end of the 2015-16 season.

    The EFL will have a new logo as part of its rebranding.
    Thoughts?

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    Oh and here is the new logo:


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    Looks like an energy supplier.

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    It sounds a bit pointless. We should really have a British league.

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    Sounds a bit like the EDL.

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    Every shit league the world over and they're still shit.

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    "The new EFL name rightly emphasises the central role our clubs play at the heart of English professional football," Football League chief executive Shaun Harvey said.

    "We believe the EFL name and brand will give our competitions an identity that is new and distinct, while at the same time retaining our unique heritage."
    I wonder if he actually believes what he is saying.

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    MLS has a weird logo too now, when I saw it I thought that Sky just made it up as they didn't have the rights to show the official one like Konami with English clubs.


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    I miss the old one. That was more bombastic.

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    Do they still have the half-and-half one used in variations by MLB/NFL/NBA, etc.?

    This name change is pointless.

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    It'll look good on our shirts next season.

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    Two questions for any rebranding.

    1. What's wrong with the current brand
    2. What's good about the new brand

    I'm looking at this and can answer neither question.

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    Isn't the current brand [the] FL72? That's pretty shit.

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    We can backdate the questions then.

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    Does Championship football get decent TV audiences? I've seen it on, but I've never actually set out to watch any of it. I ask because Hull's crowds have tanked by almost half this season, so you wonder whether anybody really cares.

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    There's a big drop from the Premier League (the likes of Blackburn and Bolton play at empty grounds now). Sky's deadly-fucking-serious coverage doesn't help though. They should make it fun.

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    Maybe a full Hunger Games-themed makeover, and billing everything as part of the 'fight for relevancy', would help.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wullie View Post
    MLS has a weird logo too now, when I saw it I thought that Sky just made it up as they didn't have the rights to show the official one like Konami with English clubs.

    It is so shit. Our old one was classic in the American style:


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    I spend my whole life saying 'I don't want to do logos, anything I draw looks dog shit' and then I see logos that have spent hundreds of thousands on them and I just want to die.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Isn't the current brand [the] FL72? That's pretty shit.
    I think that's just Sky giving their programmes a name or trying to get a hashtag going.

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    The new logo is proper French League, isn't it?

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    Class. Seriously though. What would be the downsides to a British league? Get the Micks involved as well. There must be some [American] idiot out there gagging to waste loads of money on Shamrock Rovers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    There's a big drop from the Premier League (the likes of Blackburn and Bolton play at empty grounds now). Sky's deadly-fucking-serious coverage doesn't help though. They should make it fun.
    Attendances in the Championship are generally crap, more so if the game is on TV. Molineux barely gets above 20,000 as an example, always glaring gaps in most grounds, especially as the season draws on.
    Test.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    "It's a little bit insulting that both Welsh clubs will be classed as English"



    Go and play in the Welsh league, then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Class. Seriously though. What would be the downsides to a British league?
    Impossible journeys for fans on weekday matches.

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    The Champions' League doesn't seem to suffer.

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    I think people are more likely to take a couple of days off work for a Champions League quarter final in Milan than they are for a third tier mid-table clash in Motherwell.

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    They can't moan if they're going to be lazy bastards.

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    This is where HS2 (3?) comes in.

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    Easier said than done, sofa boy.

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    Well yeah. Most fans are (at least in relation to 'aways'). The few thousand who follow their team up and down the country are irrelevant.

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    Haven't got a clue where to post this, so I went for here:

    Quote Originally Posted by The Daily Mail
    Former Arsenal player groped a woman between the legs in a nightclub and told her 'I bet you want some of that', court hears

    A former Arsenal footballer is accused of groping a young woman between her legs in a nightclub.

    Mark Randall, who started his career with Premier League giants Arsenal, cupped his hand over the woman's vagina as he walked past her and told her 'I bet you want some of that', Aylesbury Crown Court heard today.

    Randall, from Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire, now a midfielder for Milton Keynes Dons, denies sexual assault and insists he only touched the woman's thigh.

    Today, jurors were shown CCTV footage of the incident, which appeared to show Randall grab the woman over her clothing in the area of her vagina at MK Social nightclub in Milton Keynes.

    Gordon Renton, a security guard at the night club, told the court that he watched Randall approach the woman 'out of curiosity' after noticing he was 'focusing' on her.

    Mr Renton told the jury that Randall 'walked towards her and grabbed her between the legs. I pulled him away from the situation - I didn't want it to escalate any further.'

    He added: 'There was no stumble, it was an intention on grabbing between the legs.

    'I grabbed him firmly, enough to pull him away. I asked him "what do you think you are doing?" He just shrugged, as if nothing had happened.
    The Sun reckons Karl Robinson, the MK Dons manager, offered the woman's other half £500 to drop it, but the Mail doesn't mention that, only that 'Robinson had been interviewed by police'

    I imagine one ex-TTH'er is pleased Randall has been OUTED BY THE PRESS like this.

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    If only Taz was here.

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    Who?

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    Shiiiii.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Davgooner View Post
    If only Taz was here.
    Harold too. "They all want it".

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    Is this new? It sounds like a lifesaver alright.

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    I like how they've used close up shots that you'd never seen in actual game coverage to hide the fact that both games in such a viewing setup would look like the Borrowers.

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    That will be shit. I'll watch the Spanish one and see bits of the other on Match of the Day.

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    I wouldn't bother watching the Spanish one if it was on outside and I'll watch motd if City win.

    Couldn't see myself ever watching split screen games no matter who was playing though.

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    There are about twenty clasicos every season and I watch every one hoping THIS one won't just be hype descending into 90 minutes of tactical fouls, dives, spits and disappointed commentators saying, "Well, it's been... An absorbing match".

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