2004-5 Season
The badge of ‘Cheldom
Kenchels FC ‘borrowed’ its crest from the Brady family coat of arms in the early days of touring.
It’s worthy of some interest so here is the story… It happened after one of the early tours, when the index finger pointing at the sun seemed to symbolise the team’s approach to football. ‘We like to play in the sun,’ it seemed to say.
Given the team’s touring history, there can be no doubting it. But it also says something about how we like to play. So much for the inspiration. Anyway, this year I worked over the original crest. I also dug up a club motto – ‘Sol Lucet Omnibus’. No, Steve, that’s not: ‘The Arsenal defender illuminates the bus’.
It is translated, in fact, as: ‘The sun shines on us all’, which is a proverb from the pen of Gaius Petronius Arbiter who is a dead latin geezer of some renown apparently. Of course, I would have had the latin for ‘We like to play in the sun’ but I didn’t know what that was. Anyway it looks quite cool and I like it.
My aim now is to get it embroidered on the next generation of Kenchels kit…
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