How about "The Club Formerly Known as Queens Park Rangers". This what it looks like written down: please log in to view this image
Nice one, Stan. It would not surprise me to see Cardiff City become Cardiff Dragons after changing their shirts last season.
We're all the same really. You wouldn't want this would you. Please sign this petition,football family. Good luck for the new season https://www.change.org/en-GB/petiti...&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition
I don't think there is much more to it than that. There was something about our colours being chosen for things in Hull (look at Comet as another example), and there was a match report in our early days that described the team as playing like tigers or something. After that the nickname just stuck. Without wanting to sound like I'm going tit for tat, is there a local reason you lot play in hoops?
Playing in colours is a bit different than a name, a name can have some relevance. Arsenal = Gunners Southampton = Formed in St Marys = Saints Norwich = yellow = Canaries Reading = Queen = Royals but ive no idea why Leicester = foxes or Hudderfield = Terriers though.
Leicester is a prime fox-hunting area, I think the Quorn are local, so I imagine it may have something to do with that, or maybe Basil Brush came from there!...
It's all a bit American isn't it ? I feel for the Hull fans. The proposed name change is ridiculous. Will certainly sign their petition. Names should not be changed they are part of every teams heritage, unless of course, they sought rename Chelsea as Chelsea Cnuts, I could live with that.
Think it's fun for the Hull fans to be called Tigers. They can play that Lulu song when the team comes onto the pitch
Huddersfield is presumably something to do with Yorkshire Terriers and them being a Yorkshire club which they play on a lot, they've even got the West Riding version of the white rose of Yorkshire in their crest twice. Like I say, with us I think the nickname came from the match report describing the team that way, with the colours more coincidental as we weren't the only Hull based organisation to select them. What I find amusing about this in an ironic way is we have the usual chant of "give us a C, etc", then end it with "and what have you got, the Tigers" and then the objection is the club replacing City with Tigers in our name.
