Leyton Orient criticise badge on new Wrexham third kit

Leyton Orient have criticised Wrexham and their celebrity owners, Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, for creating a badge on their new kit which mirrors their own.

Wrexham unveiled their cream coloured third strip on Wednesday, and received the Hollywood seal of approval with pictures of Reynolds and Mac modelling it on the club website.

But it was a new-look badge which raised eyebrows as Wrexham deviated from their traditional crest of two red dragons facing inward, a golden football, the Prince of Wales feathers with a coronet and motto, and Welsh flag colours.

Instead, the badge was replaced with two wyverns or dragons facing each other over a football, and looking remarkably like the crest of Orient.

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The wyvern is the mythological defender of the Thames and sea, through the old Orient Shipping Company, and has adorned the badge of of the League One club since 1976.

Orient criticised Wrexham's badge on their social media by asking: "What you playing at @VancityReynolds @RMcElhenney?" alongside a video of former England manager Roy Hodgson using colourful language.

The criticism comes just weeks after Wrexham withdrew an anthem jacket from its club shop following backlash from its own fans over the use of a white dragon - rather than red - emblem.