When I was told to remove Premier League badges from my site I looked into this and it appears that any previous official club badge, whether copyrighted or not, is still IP of the club, so you still can't use it without express permission. Turns out, the PL only give express permission in...
Think it's more to do with websites that use the badges to identify content, ie on my site, the badges identify each teams page.
I looked into using old club badges, but they are still protected by the same rules and regs.
I was instructed to remove the Premier League logo, and all the Premier League team badges from my site, as well as Nottingham Forest (:shrug:). I have asked for permission, but so far no response. I guess I might get a nudge form the Albion at some stage too then.