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The fifth and final grant was made in May 1979 and covered Sheffield United, Millwall, Leyton Orient, Oldham Athletic and Northampton Town. The Government Chief Whip will be pleased to know that the case of Millwall illustrates the problems which arose in this process. There was hearty debate between the club and the College of Arms over how its badge should be blazoned. As Somerset Herald, Mr Dennys tried hard to preserve the rather specific position and look of the leaping lion in the original existing badge, but the club had already demonstrated a preference for naturalistic lions over heraldic ones and soon afterwards reverted to the original image—a version of which, I understand, it uses today. If no one at the College of Arms liked that, I am sure that, in the words of the famous Millwall song, they did not care.