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Just in case you were wondering where the MML logo came from, here is a short explanation...

I decided that the league needed a logo and I'm not very good with artwork so I was struggling. One day I was wandering around the online encyclopedia wikipedia.com when for reasons I can't recall I was reading about the ancient kingdom of Mercia. I looked at the map of where Mercia used to be and it looked remarkably like the area covered by the MML.

Map of the Kingdom of Mercia: The dark area is the "core" Mercian territory. The lighter area was at some time part of Mercia

Pagan flag

St Alban's flag

On further investigation I discovered that the flag of Mercia was a yellow saltire (diagonal cross) on a blue background, similar to the cross of St. Andrew. I decided this was easy to copy so I added some text and the sponsor logo.

I subsequently discovered that the flag of pre-Christian (pagan) Mercia was a really cool white dragon on a black background. However, the use of the white dragon specifically in Mercia is disputed so it's probably best to use what is known to be fact.

For more info on Mercia, click here For an example of an old Saxon map see here.

Tim Fellows, March 2007