Newcastle United's decision to consult fans over a change to the club badge is set to see a change to what has appeared on players' chests for the first time in more than 37 years. The club have ...

The magpie makes sense for Newcastle, the club – more so than the seahorses on the city crest, which are a nod to the city being a seaport – because that is their nickname.

Newcastle had a new crest in the 70s, focusing on the Norman castle, which gave the city its name and a magpie to reflect the club’s nickname.

And magpies have been a feature of previous club badges, standing in front of Newcastle’s er… castle in the mid-1970s. And then again in the 1980s, beneath the arc of a downturned capital ...