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image from Bill Garrison, 29 August 2002
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Originally posted as an unidentified flag, for sale on eBay, 29 August 2002.
Bill Garrison, 29 August 2002
I have no definitive citation for you, but the Three Lions St. George flag
looks exactly like several I have seen on TV broadcasts of England national team
football (soccer) games. One sees lots of variations on the English flag at such
events, and I am certain that I have seen this three-lion version as a banner
hung from stadium terraces.
Scott Rogers, 20 May 2003
From
http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~bcd/rolemaster/novi/her-list.txt, which seems to
be a website dedicated to some sort of role-playing game, is this blazon of
the arms corresponding to the "three lions St. George" shown here. "Argent,
on a cross gules a lion passant between two lions' faces in pale Or.*
Corporate Arms of the FOOTBALL LEAGUE, which governs English domestic
competition, March 25, 1974. Crest: On a grassy mount a football surmounted
by a swift (Apus apus) volant, all proper. Badge: In front of a chain
of twelve links in the form of an annulet agent a lion tricorporate the
tails of the upper two bodies in chief Or. The Football League banner flies
over Wembley Stadium." This would account for Scott Rogers's comment on our
page that he'd seen this flag flying at English national matches, although I
gather that the role of the Football League is no longer what it once was.
Joe McMillan, 12 May 2004
It may have been the arms then, but it now uses a soccer ball proper
surrounded by an azure and gules circular pattern (similar to a bordure compony).
Above this is a crest of a lion passant gardant gules, and below are the words
"The football league" in sable (that according to a picture in the Rothmans
Football Yearbook 2001-2002, anyway). The logo of the English Premier League is
simply argent, a lion statant azure, with left front leg lifted, supported by a
soccer ball argent and gules. The lion is crowned gules, and is standing on a
base vert. The base contains the words "The F.A. Premier League" in argent
between two very thin barrulets argent.
James Dignan, 12 May 2004
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