New kits 21/22

Power Man

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Sep 30, 2008
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OKR

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Nov 18, 2015
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If anything it should face the other way.

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Tbf, imo it shouldn’t.

1. When they originally got the cannon in their logo it faced to the direction it currently does as well.

2. They stopped using the cannon pointing to the left cause they couldn’t get it patented.
 

Albatros

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Aug 19, 2017
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Tbf, imo it shouldn’t.

1. When they originally got the cannon in their logo it faced to the direction it currently does as well.

2. They stopped using the cannon pointing to the left cause they couldn’t get it patented.

Actually the original logo had cannons pointing upwards. Only in the mid-1920s was there briefly a variant facing back right. On the shirts it was always to the left until 2002. The old crest is a registered trademark owned by the club as well:

Search for a trade mark - Intellectual Property Office

So is the left-pointing cannon on its own:

Search for a trade mark - Intellectual Property Office

Rather what happened was that the owners wanted a Y2K brand renewal and used a then-ongoing legal case as an excuse to suppress supporter objections (Arsenal eventually won the case).
 

maclean

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St.Pauli lol. Trying so hard to be the wokest club of them all.
trying l:rolleyes:l

At least there's one club that's not completely hypocritical when they say they're against racism. They say what they mean and mean what they say and if you've got a problem with it, there's almost every other club in the world who only have their mouths full of lip service much more deserving of your mocking laughter
 

TheMoreYouKnow

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trying l:rolleyes:l

At least there's one club that's not completely hypocritical when they say they're against racism. They say what they mean and mean what they say and if you've got a problem with it, there's almost every other club in the world who only have their mouths full of lip service much more deserving of your mocking laughter

It is pretty hypocritical to have a flourishing licensed merchandise industry while using imagery associated with anarchist-socialist politics. How many German clubs other than St.Pauli and Bayern have a U.S. club store? Not many. St.Pauli cleverly connects their club image with Far Left politics attractive to kids who otherwise have no connection with the team, city or sport even, and discovered long ago that there's a global appetite for their brand among those sets of people (often also linked to the punk/alternative scene). In some ways this is as calculated a commercial act as what Man United or Liverpool do. Cashing in on licensing is as capitalist as it gets..even if you slap a pirate flag and Antifa logos on it.
 
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