Complex sentence: This change was made in part because as of the 2010--11 season, Stockport County are sponsored by the Metropolitan Borough Council; therefore, if the badge had been kept the same, the same badge would have effectively appeared twice on the shirt.
Split into simpler sentences: This change was made in part because as of the 2010--11 season, Stockport County was sponsored by the Metropolitan Borough Council. If the badge had been kept the same, the same badge would have effectively appeared twice on the shirt.