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- Aug 3, 2011
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Tottenham have enlisted lawyers to force a penniless non-league club – formed in honour of the north London side – to change their badge, claiming it is too similar to their own cockerel crest.
Fleet Spurs, from Division One of the Wessex League, were founded in 1948 as a tribute to the White Hart Lane outfit but have now had to deal with a backlash from Tottenham’s lawyers, who have written to demand they change their badge.
The alteration will cost the non-league side between £3,000 and £4,000, although Tottenham will allow Fleet to keep the cockerel until they next change their crest.
A Spurs spokesman said: ‘If we do not take action to stop Fleet Spurs using our cockerel logo, it can undermine our ability to stop other unauthorised people who use our logo for commercial purposes, such as counterfeiters.
‘We are very conscious that Fleet Spurs is a grassroots club. For this reason we have been very careful not to ask them to do anything that might incur costs.
‘It was always the club’s approach to deal with this matter amicably and with a large dose of common sense.’
And Fleet, who will now run a competition among their supporters to come up with a new badge, insist they understand Spurs’ standpoint but admit it has been a difficult process.
‘We haven’t got a penny to our name, we couldn’t afford to fight it,’ said the club’s chairman Bryan Sheppard.
‘It’s been quite stressful, we just felt really intimidated by the heavy-handed approach.
‘But I can see where they are coming from.’
http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/14/totte...gue-club-fleet-spurs-to-change-badge-4187284/
