New Middlesbrough Badge to go on shirts in 2007
A new club badge has been launched by Middlesbrough to honour the clubs long heritage, it replaces the rounded shape badge that had been used since 1986 when the club came out of liquidation.
The badge encorporates the year 1876, which is when they were formed and points to the fact the north-east team is one of the oldest in football and not 1986 which was previously on the badge, from when the club narrowly avoided bankruptcy and had a change of owners.
New Boro Club badge
With so much use of the badge especially at boro’s Riverside stadium it will take some time to replace the old badge with the new. It features everywhere from club stationery, to the stadium’s walls, windows & mirrors.
2007/08 Shirts will have new club badge
Middlesbrough’s new badge will of course feature prominently on the clubs new 2007/08 home and away shirts which are being manufactured by Errea and sponsored by 888.com.
Chief Executive of Middlesbrough Keith Lamb said:
“We understand that many of our fans only know the post-1986 Boro and we are certainly not erasing that from our history. We are proud of our rise from the brink of extinction and all of us - club and fans - will remain grateful to the people of the post-1986 era for pulling the football club through that difficult period.
“During our European travels we met clubs that had nothing like our tradition, having been perhaps formed in the 1920s. They should have been looking up to us, knowing our distinguished heritage but they actually thought we had been formed as a new club just 20 years earlier.
“The name of Middlesbrough Football Club is one of the oldest around and it is only right that we should be openly proud of that fact.
“We are no longer a club throwing off the shackles of liquidation, but one proud to have reached five cup finals and an established Premier League team over the past decade.”
Speaking on the club’s official website Steve Gibson, Middlesbrough club chairman said:
“I’ve been pressing for the change of badge for some time. The 1986 badge suggested our history was far shorter than it really was..We should be proud of our history and that the club is one of the oldest not just in England but in the entire world. Our history before 1986 might not always have been covered in glory but it is our history all the same and we should recognise that…The new badge will ensure that everyone in the football world knows just how far back Middlesbrough Football Club goes. We should all be proud of that.”
this is ****
im a geordie and its gr8 that this badge is ***
i have the boro badge tattoo’d on my leg, someone get me a rubber!!!!
the boro bage is mint
i have to say there new badge is pretty sweet and im a united fan …. i like
this badge sucks
This Badge Is Miiinnttt
this badge is class, liverpool aint got no history, there youngsters compared to us
yeah the new boro badge is good but will it look good on the shirt were love you boro fc
relax
The badge is awsome (yes i am a boro fan till i die)
The Badge is class
***** hell its great
its gooood
the badge is or8 but on the badge the year is 1876 but in 1876 middlesbrough were middlesbrough afc
What a heap of steaming pump.
It will become a classic of the 21st Century. Well done Boro.
this badge is ****
wuld look miles better without that tacky scroll thing at the bottom
by the way Gavin McElroy and Gavin are different people up da toon
it’s classical best badge in the league
GET RID OF THE BLOODY SCROLL ITS ****!!!!!!!!!!!
hehehe
what a great badge nothing is to good for the top team in the north east
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the badge is a better shape but it would be better if it was the old erimus bagde thats some real history
boro fan for 14 years boro fan for life
we are good we can do it
red army
i think the new badge is absolutely brill
its brill