Editing West Bromwich Albion F.C. (section)

===Badge===
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[[File:West-Bromwich-Albion-F.C.-old-logo.png|thumb|upright|right|West Bromwich Albion club badge c. 1900–2006]]
[[File:westbromcrest.jpg|thumb|upright|right|The [[coat of arms]] of [[West Bromwich]] has featured intermittently on Albion team shirts.]]
Albion's main club badge dates back to the late 1880s, when club secretary Tom Smith suggested that a [[Song thrush|throstle]] (song thrush) sitting on a [[Goal post|crossbar]] be adopted for the badge.<ref name="McOwan p15 Throstle">McOwan p. 15.</ref>{{Ref label|Throstle|B|}} The badge has been subject to various revisions since then.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Trademarks owned by West Bromwich Albion Football Club Limited
| url = https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmowner/page/search?id=51961&domain=1
| publisher = Intellectual Property Office
| access-date = 26 November 2018
| archive-date = 21 April 2023
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230421184717/https://trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmowner/page/search?id=51961&domain=1
| url-status = live
}}</ref> It has always featured a throstle, usually on a blue and white striped shield, although the crossbar was replaced with a [[Common hawthorn|hawthorn]] branch at some point after the club's move to [[the Hawthorns]]. The throstle was chosen because the [[public house]] in which the team used to change kept a pet thrush in a cage. It also gave rise to Albion's early nickname, ''the Throstles''. The hawthorn bush is also a favourite bush of throstles, which were regularly seen on the pre-stadium estate and local area. As late as the 1930s, a caged throstle was placed beside the touchline during matches and it was said that it only used to sing if Albion were winning.<ref name="McOwan p15 Throstle"/> In 1979, an effigy of a throstle was erected above the half-time scoreboard of the Woodman corner at the Hawthorns,<ref>Matthews (1987) p. 239.</ref> and was returned to the same area of the ground following redevelopment in the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite web
| title = West Bromwich Albion ground guide
| url = http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/park/yfh45/westbrom.htm
| publisher = Internet Football Ground Guide
| access-date = 1 December 2007
| url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071213091411/http://www.dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/park/yfh45/westbrom.htm
| archive-date = 13 December 2007
| df = dmy-all
}}</ref>

In 1975, a version of the badge (on a [[roundel]] rather than a shield) was granted by the [[College of Arms]] to the Football League for licensing to the club. The badge was described in heraldic [[blazon]] as, "On a roundel paly of thirteen argent and azure a [[mistle thrush]] perched on a [[raspberry]] branch leaved and fructed proper." This is the only known occasion on which the branch has been described as a raspberry branch rather than a hawthorn branch: [[Rodney Dennys]], the [[officer of arms]] responsible, may have been imperfectly briefed.<ref>{{cite journal |first=David Llewelyn |last=Phillips |title=Badges and 'Crests': the twentieth-century relationship between football and heraldry |journal=Coat of Arms |series=3rd ser. |volume=11 |issue=1 |year=2015 |pages=35–50 (43, and plate 4e)}}</ref>

The badge was re-designed in 2006, incorporating the name of the club for the first time. The new design aimed to safeguard and consolidate the club's identity.<ref name="NewBadge">{{cite web
| title = Albion unveil new badge
| url = http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0,,10366~777862,00.html
| publisher = West Bromwich Albion F.C.
| date = 4 February 2006
| access-date = 11 November 2007
| url-status = dead
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090112213028/http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/0%2C%2C10366~777862%2C00.html
| archive-date = 12 January 2009
| df = dmy-all
}}</ref> Prior to this, the main club badge rarely coincided with that worn on the first team strip. No badge appeared on the kit for most of the club's history, although the [[Stafford knot]] featured on the team jerseys for part of the 1880s.<ref name="Complete Record p64">Matthews (2007) p. 64.</ref> The [[West Bromwich]] town [[coat of arms|arms]] were worn on the players' shirts for the [[1931 FA Cup Final|1931]], [[1935 FA Cup Final|1935]] and [[1954 FA Cup Final|1954]] FA Cup finals. The town's [[Latin]] motto, "''[[Labor omnia vincit]]''", translates as "labour conquers all things" or "work conquers all". The town arms were revived as the shirt badge from 1994 until 2000,{{Ref label|TownCrest|C|}} with the throstle moved to the collar of the shirts.

Albion's first regular shirt badge appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s where it was blue. Although it featured the throstle, it did not include the blue and white striped shield of the club badge.<ref name="Historical Kits"/> A similar design was also used during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the mid-1970s, a more abstract version of the throstle was used on the club's shirts, while in the late 1970s through to the mid-1980s, an embroidered WBA logo was displayed, a common abbreviation of the club's name in print.<ref name="Historical Kits"/> Not until the early 21st century did the full club badge appear on the team's shirts.<ref name="Historical Kits"/>