Speaking of Yaya Toure, his soon-to-be former club unveiled a new crest some time ago to debut this upcoming season. When I first saw it I went "beep beep" unconsciously in my head, I was reminded powerfully of an old automobile company logo, powerfully but indistinctly. I Googled Datsun and car company logos generally, including "old so-and-so logo" and couldn't find anything. The new crest was by popular demand, the populars wanted a retro look and were in the loop with the official selection.

Unbeknownst to me the three stars in the old crest caused some derision, I guess because of City's ignoble pre-Abu Dhabi history.

The motto means something like "superb on the pitch." Okay, so we didn't have many stars and weren't superb on the field for much of our history, this isn't a history term paper, precise accuracy is not a spec, it's a frigging logo, can we aspire? What should the motto have been, "Same Old City" in latin? That would have been historically accurate.

You can overdo the tradition thing.

Anyway, the three stars and the three diagonal white stripes represented the three rivers of Manchester, and the stripes are repeated in the new crest, a bit dingier, maybe for precise accuracy if the rivers are a bit polluted, the red rose is for Lancashire, home county, let's not have red as an alternate uni color, okay? And the ship is for the shipping industry. Let me ask you something, okay? What is more precisely historically accurate, that Manchester was a shipping hub or that MANCHESTER WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION? You want to be historically accurate, take out that goddamned ship and put in some dark satanic mills! Oh! And the supporters wanted "Manchester City" in the new crest, and that really is important, that should be a spec and was missing from the old one, M.C.F.C. sucked. And 1894, okay fine, 1894, you want to put est. in there knock yourself out. The bird in the old crest,  I don't know what the fuck that bird is, it looks like a German eagle or a griffin, a golden griffin? the bird was absurd and had to go and that excess gold too, no gold in Manchester, there was no Manchester Gold Rush, our nickname is not the frigging '49'ers, exit gold, but the ship is gold, why? because it brought gold? that blows, there are too many colors in both crests and Manchester City only has ONE color, sky blue, it is a unique color, our nickname is the "Blues" or "Sky Blues" and there is precious little of that in the new crest it should be BLUE instead the new crest makes it look like we should be called the "Whites," the frigging "Blancos" and then you go and add that red rose which is so bright and vivid against a pastel background it dominates the color scheme it looks like a big ZIT on a plain face, it's what you notice or a bleeding orifice or a GUNSHOT WOUND Does anybody look at these before the dramatic pause unveiling there should be ONE COLOR in any Manchester City crest and that's sky blue it
really looks like a car company logo to me i thought datsun. Anyway, it's okay with me it just pisses
me off like Pitt's new football helmet in "midnight blue" which looks exactly like matte black when like the official school colors are NAVY blue and gold how do you fuck up navy blue well they did but the Pitt script is back and halle-fucking-luja to that at least they don't have a red flower in it like dotting the undotted i in Pitt the new york times can suck my bleeding orifice I WANT TO WRITE IN A FONT WHERE THE SMALL "I" IS UNDOTTED! does anybody know one city's logo is fine i wish they would have left out the red rose we should sing what a wonderful world i see skies of blue red roses too instead of blue moon red has never been a city color screw lancashire THE RED ROSE COULD ME MISTAKEN FOR COMMUNISM MARX AND ENGELS WROTE THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO IN MANCHESTER DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT you make me sick its fine.