‘Congrats on your new Chelsea badge’: Fans all say the same thing as Villa unveil new club crest
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‘Congratulations on your Chelsea badge’: fans mock Aston Villa’s new club crest for their ‘remake’ of the Blues’ logo and blow it up as ‘TERRIBLE’ after supporters vote on new design for next season
- Aston Villa unveiled their new club logo for Thursday’s game
- Fans were asked to vote for two shortlisted designs
- The winner, a round design with a lion facing forward, won 77 percent
- Fans immediately took to social media to compare it to Chelsea’s
Majority of football fans had the same reaction on social media after Aston Villa unveiled their new cub decal ahead of Thursday’s game against Manchester United.
The new badge, which will be used from the 2023/24 season, was the result of “an extensive period of fan consultation, creative exploration and tinkering”.
Two designs were shortlisted, with supporters of the club overwhelmingly (77 per cent) voting in favor of the winner, a round crest that pays tribute to their 1982 European Cup victory.
Aston Villa’s new badge (left) is strikingly similar to Chelsea’s current club crest
Now completed, it is the lion of the club in the blue center with the words ‘Aston Villa’ and the year the club was founded, 1874, in the burgundy border.
But the design, which now sees the lion looking forwards instead of backwards, has led many to say he looks strikingly like another Premier League side.
The Chelsea club crest also consists of two circles with a lion in the center with the club’s name at the top.
‘Congratulations on your new Chelsea badge,’ wrote one fan while another joked that Villa ‘copied their homework’.
Another tweeted: ‘from today I will call Aston Villa the purple Chelsea’.
Some were tougher in their criticism, reading ‘Villa’s new badge is terrible, another fallen soldier’.
