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**Deal Reached on GB Football Team**

WSS
WSS Posts: 25,070
edited May 2009 in Other Football and Sports
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Deal-Reached-On-Format-For-Great-Britain-Football-Team-For-2012-London-Olympics-Sky-News-Reveals/Article/200905415291234

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  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 8,997
    How is it a GB team if only English players are gonna play??
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    I know - it's weird.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,085
    Which Non-English British players would you have in the team if there was a game this weekend?
  • Centenary_Shirt
    Centenary_Shirt Posts: 203
    What else could be done? It would be weird for the biggest sport in the Uk to not be represented at the biggest sports event to be held here.

    The others had the oppourtunity to take part and they didn't want to. Why should England allow themselves to be blackmailed by the others into not taking part.

    And yes I can see why they don't want to. Turning a blind eye and not taking part themselves is the only solution that could be found that would suit everyone.

    If only more conflicts were solved by people coming to this sort of agreement.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    [cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]Which Non-English British players would you have in the team if there was a game this weekend?

    Giggs?
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 8,997
    Shay Given?
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Im sure there would be a good few who could be put forward and who would love to play------------it was their FAs who didnt want to know----------The Home of Football during the Olympics with no team in it was a sick joke.
  • JollyRobin
    JollyRobin Posts: 1,706
    Shay Given's Irish and Ryan Giggs would be 38!
  • McLovin
    McLovin Posts: 2,307
    I'd have Scott Brown in there. Johnny Evans might be there abouts before too long. Bellamy maybe for a pit of pace and evil, but there's not many. Before the disastrous Sunderland experiment I'd say Gordon for sure, but he's having a mare.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    [cite]Posted By: Goonerhater[/cite]Im sure there would be a good few who could be put forward and who would love to play
    it was their FAs who didnt want to know
    The Home of Football during the Olympics with no team in it was a sick joke.

    You can see why the other FA's didnt want to do it.

    How would you feel if in a few years FIFA turn around and say "you managed a GB team for the olympics, now you can do it for the world cup too"
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  • McLovin
    McLovin Posts: 2,307
    [cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]Which Non-English British players would you have in the team if there was a game this weekend?

    Barry Ferg and Allan Mac
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    [cite]Posted By: jollyrobin[/cite] Ryan Giggs would be 38!

    That clearly matters to him in the Prem....
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    We should not go near this, it will only encourage FIFA to demand a British national team.
  • JollyRobin
    JollyRobin Posts: 1,706
    edited May 2009
    [quote]That clearly matters to him in the Prem....[/quote]

    We don't know what's going to happen in 3 years time, but I have an inkling he will have retired by then.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,085
    I'm pretty sure Giggs has retired internationally.
    [cite]Posted By: McLovin[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Friend Or Defoe[/cite]Which Non-English British players would you have in the team if there was a game this weekend?

    Barry Ferg and Allan Mac
    LOL! Nice try! If they weren't banned I wouldn't have either of them in over what England already has.

    Maik Taylor of NI might make the squad.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,085
    [cite]Posted By: jollyrobin[/cite]
    That clearly matters to him in the Prem....

    We don't know what's going to happen in 3 years time, but I have an inkling he will have retired by then.
    The question was THIS weekend.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,117
    [cite]Posted By: jollyrobin[/cite]
    That clearly matters to him in the Prem....

    We don't know what's going to happen in 3 years time, but I have an inkling he will have retired by then.

    Hi, read the question.
  • WelshAddick
    WelshAddick Posts: 1,321
    There should not be a team... a few years down the line fifa will say you must have a combined team. So glasgow, cardiff, london and belfast will share the games. This stinks.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,333
    Anyone think Jonjo will be in with a shout of the Olympic team?

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