Admit it, everyone loves a mascot!
From just walking around the stadium, posing for photos, doing charity work or silly antics, they add to the fans’ experience around the football club.
In the football league there have been some seriously weird and wonderful mascots that have taken to the pitch in order to support their team over the years.
Whether it’s the club’s heritage or just using the club’s nickname, we love mascots and feel like they should be championed.
In this article we take you through some of the best and worst mascots of all time.
Southend United – Sammy The Shrimp
Nicknamed The Shrimpers, it’s obvious to see why Southend United’s mascot is a shrimp that goes by the name of Sammy.
But what isn’t so apparent is the thinking behind this depiction of a shrimp. You really wouldn’t want to see this mascot without it’s kit on, more mole rat than shrimp!
Burton Albion – Billy the Brewer
If the primary role of a mascot is supposed to be represent the club as a whole, then surely Burton Albion fans can’t be pleased with Billy the Brewer as theirs.
At first we thought that Billy was a monkey, but no he’s not, which makes this effort ten times worse.
Yeovil Town – Jolly Green Giant
There’s not much you can say about Jolly Green Giant, other than he is a giant, he’s green and he scares me.
Yeovil Town fans will of course argue he is just a friendly mascot, but he looks rather sinister if you ask me.
The fact he walks around with a child also in green is just weird too.
Grimsby Town – The Mighty Mariner
To be fair to Grimsby, their nickname is the Mariners and they have a Mariner as their official mascot.
It’s just his disproportionate nose that is just all wrong, but before the Mighty Mariner, the club had Harry Haddock, a rainbow trout.
Cardiff City – Bartley Blue And Zoe
Luckily for Cardiff City fans, they no longer have to endure seeing super heroes Bartley Blue and Zoe Lou as their official mascots.
They brought in thanks to Vincent Tan, but luckily the club have decided to rightly have a Bluebird as their mascot named Bartley.
Southend United (Again)
As well as unveiling Sammy Shrimp, Southend also brought in the support of this guy.
If you didn’t know it was their mascot and knew it would be ‘sea related’, would you guess at an eel?
Probably not, but that’s what they went for, meet Elvis J Eel… the name makes it worse.