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In January 1972, the Football League consulted its lawyers for advice about how to protect its members’ interests in their visual identity. Since many of the devices were heraldic, the lawyers approached the College of Arms to obtain guidance about the ownership. They visited the college to meet Rodney Dennys, one of its officers, as Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary. At this meeting, and in subsequent discussions, it emerged that the Football Association was not keen for football clubs to be granted arms themselves. Accordingly, a plan was devised in which the College of Arms would grant 92 individual badges to the Football League, one for each of its member clubs at the time, and the league would then license the use of each badge to the appropriate club.