
Originally Posted by
noel
Other clubs can only be forced to follow suit, otherwise all the cool-sounding animals will have been taken by the time it becomes commonplace. Imagine if your club was a late adopter and you had to follow the slugs or the sloths. There are so many football clubs in the UK, you could end up with some pretty obscure animals. Fans would have to develop chants to explain things about their animal.
"We're the famous Heaton Smelt, and we're a named after a small salmon-like fish."