Old English Spangles? Where oh where did my Spangles go I loved Old English they were the best you know
Going down the wrong track - Ceres was the Roman godess of agriculture. This Ceres was most definitely a male....
There is a very vague connection with breweries - especially the Schleswig-Holstein ones, but nothing at all to do with ants etc...
AHA!! Importation from Friesland the renowned dairy bull Ceres 4497 FRS......successful in establishing the Friesian as an eminent long-living dairy breed in this country .... http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/image/?imageId=images-8307&profile=access
Not sure of the Mayor connection, but wasn't 1314 when Edward II banned football in the streets of London? That so enraged the Scots - who even then were regularly winning in London - that they gave him a jolly good thrashing at Bannockburn a couple of months later. ;-)