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Fully kitted out, the Football League now could start the process of granting individual clubs their badges. The process proved rather protracted, but 25 clubs were granted badges, in five batches of five. The first grant was made on 27 October 1975, consisting of badges for Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Manchester United, Hull City and West Bromwich Albion. Time, alas, does not allow me to recite all their blazons, but, for the sake of my noble friends Lord Markham and Lord Moynihan of Chelsea, I can say that their club’s badge is