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What do you guys make of this? Interesting to see that ginger nob from Sellick saying it shouldn't be called Team GB as there are no Scots in it. What a fud! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/8072981.stm |
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« Reply #1 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 14:31:49 » |
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The sooner we rid ourselves of the cash drain that is Scotland, Wales and N Ireland the better.
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« Reply #2 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 14:33:27 » |
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Typical Sweaties never happy. We should let them have independence then we'd all be happy
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« Reply #3 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 14:34:17 » |
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It is a British team though. It will be a team representing the UK, selected from every eligible and available British player. If the SFA etc want to prevent their players from being eligible/available then that's up to them. It's still 'Team GB'
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« Reply #4 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 14:49:38 » |
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It is a British team though. It will be a team representing the UK, selected from every eligible and available British player. If the SFA etc want to prevent their players from being eligible/available then that's up to them. It's still 'Team GB'
It's either British or UK r4e |
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« Reply #5 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 15:03:08 » |
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Why was it deemed necessary to rebrand Great Britain as "Team GB" for olympic purposes?
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« Reply #6 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 15:38:22 » |
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Its Gay. end of.
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Vi er best i verden! Vi er best i verden! Vi har slått England 2-1 i fotball!! Det er aldeles utrolig! Vi har slått England! England, kjempers fødeland. Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana--vi har slått dem alle sammen. Vi har slått dem alle sammen. Maggie Thatcher can you hear me?
Your boys took a hell of a beating!"
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« Reply #7 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 15:39:18 » |
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The sooner we rid ourselves of the cash drain that is Scotland, Wales and N Ireland the better.
Well this is all part of Gordons cunning plan to make everyone feel more British. |
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Vi er best i verden! Vi er best i verden! Vi har slått England 2-1 i fotball!! Det er aldeles utrolig! Vi har slått England! England, kjempers fødeland. Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana--vi har slått dem alle sammen. Vi har slått dem alle sammen. Maggie Thatcher can you hear me?
Your boys took a hell of a beating!"
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« Reply #8 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 15:41:17 » |
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Why was it deemed necessary to rebrand Great Britain as "Team GB" for olympic purposes?
To out gay the Americans. I don't mind a Great British football team. Who cares if the Sweatie, Taffs and Paddys aren't included, less arguments that way. Think if they were involved, we wouldn't be able to play our strongest team because we'd have to include their players too, for political reasons. Now we can pick the best 11. Not that football should be in the Olympics mind. |
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« Reply #9 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 15:49:46 » |
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It's either British or UK r4e
Ok I realise the difference, but the team represents the UK, and is called Team GB, so it's their fault not mine! |
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« Reply #10 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 15:56:52 » |
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Ok I realise the difference, but the team represents the UK, and is called Team GB, so it's their fault not mine!
Surely its because official Olympic official stuff has us down simply as Great Britain. As in nationality : British. Edit: apparently the IOC does govern the entirety of Ireland and Northern Irelandish (sic) athletes can chose who they can compete for, us (GB) or them.. |
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« Reply #11 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 16:08:06 » |
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There are a great number of smaller associations, particularly in the Caribbean, who would like to see the four home nations having to compete as a single team. That riles me a little. The game would not exist in its current form were it not for the UK. We have more football history here than those places could even dream of having. I can completely understand the SFA being wary of losing their status.
The compromise is a bit of a fudge, as compromsises often are. But it works, more or less.
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 16:38:07 » |
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Better chance of winning with the minnows not included anyway.
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« Reply #13 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 17:24:56 » |
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The season starts during the Olympics does it not? It also comes after the European Championships.
Who the hell is going to want to play in this? Stick England C or British Universities in and move on.
There's no need for football to be at the Olympics period.
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« Reply #14 on: Friday, May 29, 2009, 17:45:48 » |
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There are a great number of smaller associations, particularly in the Caribbean, who would like to see the four home nations having to compete as a single team. That riles me a little. The game would not exist in its current form were it not for the UK. We have more football history here than those places could even dream of having. I can completely understand the SFA being wary of losing their status.
The compromise is a bit of a fudge, as compromsises often are. But it works, more or less.
England and Scotland are the original international football teams. If trinidad and tobago or Jamaica dont like it..... then fuck off! Why dont they just enter a womans team? No one gives a shit anyway. |
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