![[Flag of Northampton Saints]](../images/g/gb@north.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 12 April 2010
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Northampton RFC was founded in 1880, as Northampton St. James by Reverend Samuel
Wathen Wigg, curate of St. James Church, therefore the nickname of the club,
"Saints" or "Jimmy's". When English rugby turned professional in 1995, the club
was purchased by the local entrepreneur Keith Barwell. Coached by former local
player John Steele, the Saints won the European Rugby Cup in 2000, edging out
Munster (Ireland) 9-8, and the European Challenge in 2009, defeating
Bourgoin-Jallieu (France) 15-3.
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Saints' official website
The official supporters' flag, as sold on the Saints' online shop, is
vertically divided green-yellow-black-yellow-green-yellow-black-yellow-green,
the yellow stripes being twice narrower than the green and black ones, with the
club's arms in the middle.
http://shop.northamptonsaints.co.uk/product.php?productid=905&cat=45&page=1
- Flag for sale
http://www.northamptonsaints.co.uk/3831_5862.php - Photo of the flag
![[Flag of Northampton Saints]](../images/g/gb@nort1.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 12 April 2010
During the quarters of the
European Rugby Cup lost against Munster (19-33) in the Thomond Stadium of
Limerick, 10 April 2010, the Saints' supporters used a simpler flag, vertically
divided black-yellow-green with the club's arms in the middle, skewed to the top
of the flag.
Originally playing in black and green, the Saints wore for
the first time black-green-gold jerseys in 1905, when playing against the
touring All Blacks. The arms of the Saints is made of a shield sable charged
with a castle argent flanked by two lions or winged and nimbed argent. A rose
gules slipped vert is placed under the castle. Three scallops or are placed in
the base of the shield, which surmounts a scroll or charged with "NORTHAMPTON
RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB" in letter sable. These arms are based on the arms of
Northampton, "Gules on a mount vert a tower triple-towered argent the portcullis
raised or supported by two lions rampant guardant of the last." The
modifications used on the Saints' arms allude to the origin of the club (the
wings and nimbs for the Saints, the scallops for St. James).
http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/northants.html
Ivan Sache, 12
April 2010
![[Flag of Northampton Saints]](../images/g/gb@nort2.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2011
During the semi-final of the Heineken Cup won on 1 May 2011 over Perpignan
(23-7), the club's supporters used, beside the vertically divided flag with the
badge in the middle, a flag horizontally divided green-black-green with a yellow
fimbriation separating the green and black fields.
Ivan Sache, 4 May
2011
