 In 1975 a version of the badge ( on a roundel rather than a shield ) was granted by the College of Arms to the Football League , for licensing to the club . The badge was described in heraldic blazon as On a roundel paly of thirteen argent and azure a <unk> thrush perched on a raspberry branch leaved and <unk> proper . This is the only known occasion on which the branch has been described as a raspberry branch rather than a hawthorn branch : Rodney Dennys , the officer of arms responsible , may have been imperfectly briefed . 
