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That's right, it's another "modern football has gone mad" story.

According to Spanish sports paper Marca, the mega-club's mega-club Real Madrid have hit upon an idea to sell even more shirts - by altering their badge to fit the needs of the people buying them.

The club are seeking to sell more shirts in the Middle East, and so they've decided to remove the tiny Christian cross on the top of their crest (which you'd probably never noticed) in order to appeal to non-Christian fans in those countries.

(Image: Clive Mason)

They'll keep the cross on other shirts, but it all means that the familiar Real Madrid badge that you can see above has now been changed to look like this to non-Christian fans:

(Image: tribuna.com)

Real hope that the move will help them maximise their fanbase among non-Christians, who presumably would have been put off from buying the shirt before because of the cross.

And to think, crosses in football always used to be about getting the ball in the box.