Today’s recently-acquired specimen for the collection
features another of our particular favourite names in the form of Belgium’s rather
lovely Westerlo, which somehow always seems to have had about it a certain
poetically melancholy charm, utterly irrespective of the team’s footballing
prowess.
Westerlo, currently heading the Belgian second division in
their attempt to regain promotion to the top flight, would have come to attention
at the very cusp of the old & new millennia, as their domestic profile rose
to the highest level of the league structure & subsequently even a brief sojourn
in continental competition, & the attachment to the name has endured since.
The badge itself, featuring the club/municipality crest,
displays no particular vintage in its objectness, but still, bearing that
romantic name, it’s another to be sported on the lapel with an affectionate
pride.
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