Should EFC start to utilise blue liverbird?

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

No. In footballing terms it is synonymous with them. To start to use it even if we could would look as though we're trying to co-brand ourselves as their other. At the very least ape some of their image recognition.

Everton have enough idenitity and heritage as a club to not need to do this sort of thing.

If like me your from Liverpool you will always associate the birds with the city first, outside of Liverpool the majority of footy fans would see it as being "synonymous with them" as you say.

 

[Creature]

'Today a spokesman for LFC said: “Our position was always to solely seek to protect our specific version of the Liver Bird to stop its use in counterfeit Liverpool FC merchandise.'

Quote taken from the red echo itself so panic over.

Now where can I buy a blue liver bird??

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

What did Shambolic FC use before the Liver Building and Liver Birds were more symbolic of the city (i.e. at the time we were using it)?

I'm not that bothered about their use of it - more bothered of the mirroring of that by the LFC Echo with their RED Liver Bird. If that so-called newspaper wanted to be seen as a serious proper example of journalism their bird would not be red.

Of course we should talk in terms of it being Liver Bird S>>t

Bit about it here mate. http://www.lfchistory.net/Articles/Article/3188

 

[DrEFC]

It will just make us look small time imo

Also why would you want anything that is synonymous with that club

its synonymous with my city. If you know your history. It was utilised by our club before they existed.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Lads, why are we called Everton? We should be called 'The proper club in Liverpool we were here first and this isn't just an argument started by pedantic bores FC'?

Wonder what that would be in Latin.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Why would it be small time for us to use full the potential of marketing as a team from beautiful Liverpool?

 

[Jags..class]

I would like a blue liver bird tbh as it's connected us to the town Liverpool

 

[ToffeeDan]

Lads, why are we called Everton? We should be called 'The proper club in Liverpool we were here first and this isn't just an argument started by pedantic bores FC'?

Because 19th Century Kenwright equivalent didn't think "err hang on, isn't Liverpool a bit bigger place than err Everton" (ditto when we changed from SDFC to EFC) - and there was a spat over naming rights in 1892 (I think over the use of Liverpool (or Everton, can't remember) and the FA made a ruling.. probably in their favour as per.

 

[MickA]

Because 19th Century Kenwright equivalent didn't think "err hang on, isn't Liverpool a bit bigger place than err Everton" (ditto when we changed from SDFC to EFC) - and there was a spat over naming rights in 1892 (I think over the use of Liverpool (or Everton, can't remember) and the FA made a ruling.. probably in their favour as per.

They wanted to use our name.

Besides which.....Internazionale, Juventus, Flamengo, Benfica, Celtic, Rangers, Ajax, Panathinaikos, Galatasaray etc etc the name becomes more in grained when you win stuff which is what our main reason for being should be. Taking the name of the city isn't an issue if you are in peoples consciousness.

 

[Blue Cheese]

Rather we used Ruperts tower that's our emblem, the bird is theirs.

 

[TheFinnFan]

Rather we used Ruperts tower that's our emblem, the bird is theirs.

No one has said we should ditch any of our symbols like the tower. And the bird really isnt theirs. We can use it and we should use it.

 

[blulouie]

I would like a blue liver bird tbh as it's connected us to the town Liverpool

City not town Jags...bit of a difference mate

 

[Blue Cheese]

No one has said we should ditch any of our symbols like the tower. And the bird really isnt theirs. We can use it and we should use it.

In football terms it is accepted that the liver bird is associated with the devils children. That's the only reason I'm against it, I don't think we need them.

 

[chrissyjack]

Maybe have a blue Liver Bird facing the other way . ELO's album Eldorado has the red shoes from the Wizard of Oz on the cover , with the green witch hands trying to grab them . It's the opposite way from the film version . That way they got around copyright issues

 

[toffee_laura]