Yes that result was massive yesterday at the Britannia Stadium, but there was an even bigger result in Leicestershire yesrerday,
Hereford United, who only SIX seasons ago were playing against Leicester City in League 1, but yesterday they had to return to our county for an FA Cup qualifying tie against Ellistown and Ibstock, The game was switched to Coalville Town's Owen Street ground, (I'm not sure why)
The significance of this, well apart from Ellistown and Ibstock knocking out Hereford who are known themselves as being FA Cup giant killers with a last minute goal to win the tie 3-2.
My children both playing in the junior teams at Ibstock United, and I know that Hereford United tried to sue Ibstock United for the copyrights of the Hereford United FC badge, as Ibstock also have a bull on their club badge,
Ibstock United who now field well over twenty junior teams in the Leicestershire leagues were made to change their club emblem.
So Hereford's 'fall from grace' is now complete witha little bit of poetic justice,
ok you may argue that Ibstock may have copied the badge, but when they started, I believe in the 60's they were just a small village team. They weren't to know they were copying Hereford's badge who themselves at the time were a Southern League club thst many people hsd never heard of.
Well done Ellistown and Ibstock .
MASSIVE result yesterday
posted on 14/9/14
Oh, come on gloria – the whole "they weren't to know" line is absurd. The badge was not merely similar but a shameless copy – a touched-up scan, by the look of it. It cannot have been made without using the Hereford badge as an original source.
As for them being a club that "many people had never heard of", I don't think that Hereford used a bull at all until after they became famous for giant-killing in the 70s. Moreover, Ibstock United wasn't even formed until 2005, just after Hereford won promotion from the Conference. So they nicked the badge from a Football League club, not some obscure Sunday pub league side.
Sure, congrats to the latest incarnation of Ibstock for their win – but the whole badge moan strikes me as misguided.
posted on 14/9/14
Are you suggesting that Gloria is talking bull Fatfox?
posted on 14/9/14
I dont know the hidtory of Ibstock United, but my son hss been playing there since 2005, and they were there prior to that
posted on 14/9/14
I was always wondering if there was some connection between Ibstock and Bostick (a slight rearrangement of letters).
I remember spending a freezing night on the floor at that TA centre in Leicester, having never been there before, and waking up to find the glue factory was close by.😳
posted on 15/9/14
I'm not saying there was no football in Ibstock prior to 2005 – there was the Leicestershire Senior League side Ibstock Welfare (starting in the mid-80s) and a separate youth club. But Ibstock United, who nicked Hereford's badge, have only existed since 2005, when the senior and junior clubs… er… united.
http://www.fchd.info/IBSTOCKW.HTM
http://www.fchd.info/IBSTOCKU.HTM
By 2005, Hereford were far from an obscure club. And it isn't as if the logo was merely similar to Hereford's – it's a straight copy. For anyone who hasn't seen it, here it is – blatant or what?
http://web.archive.org/web/20120628214354/http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/ibstockunited
Sorry, gloria. No ill will intended to your offspring or any other Ibstock footballers. I wish them every success. But whoever scanned in and stole that logo was, IMO, just plain wrong.
posted on 15/9/14
downsouf: it's a nice idea, but the company acquired in 1929 by Leicester's USM began life 40 years earlier next to Boston Harbour in Massachusetts, so it seems more likely that the name 'Bostik' comes from Boston and sticky.
posted on 15/9/14
Ha ha fat fox, you sound like the Elvis character on Steve Wrights show on a Friday afternoon
posted on 15/9/14
^ no doubt he's singing in the bath right now, safe in the knowledge he's knows all about Bostick.
Stuck on you
posted on 19/12/14
All irrelevant after today