Club Crests Crisis Update, or: Gordon Gekko’s Premier League

As you may already know, we were recently contacted by Net Result – the English Premier League’s legal attack dog – and told to remove all UK club crests from the site or spend 1,000 years in jail. Or something.

The only way for us to start using the crests again is to contact teams individually and ask for permission. Here’s a quick update on our progress:

Hull City were the first to say yes, instantly becoming our favourite Premier League team (come on you Tigers!). And emails have recently been sent from team bloggers to Celtic, Aston Villa, Blackburn, Spurs, Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool. We’ll be letting you know how they respond.

In the meantime, we want to highlight the excellent response we received from all our fellow football blogs out there.

Though we’re all to some extent competing with each other, there is a genuine community spirit amongst football bloggers, and we want to thank each and every blog that highlighted our little legal battle with a link, and also to share some of their more Photoshopped creative responses.

Unprofessional Foul suggested they may start using tweaked crests, like so:

While Fredorrarci at Sports is a TV Show came up with a whole host of potential alternatives, including:

and my personal favourite:

Elsewhere, Run of Play kicked off an in-depth debate about the legal merits of the Premier League’s case, EPL Talk argued (convincingly) that this is a symptom of the bigger problem: the Premier League’s inability to understand/embrace the internet, Ahmed at Football Media argued that we should take on the lawyers, while 101 GG (who’ve had their own run ins with Net Result) and A More Splendid Life showed some fight the power solidarity.

A complete list of all the blogs who highlighted our problem can be found right here. Big thanks to all of them for the support.

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