NorthernLights24 Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31702679 Go and ram it up your arse FA. 1 Link to comment
dave_min Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 In more important news, team GiB have sacked their manager. Link to comment
RAZOR Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 I always feel sorry for NI when a Team GB gets thrown about. Link to comment
ben_1903 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 What's the problem?Whether or not football should be an olympic sport; it is an olympic sport at the moment. Great Britain and Northern Ireland are represented in lots of sports. If there is a GB cycling / volleyball / canoe slalom, so why not football? You don't hear about the English / Scottish / Welsh / NI hockey associations getting their knickers in a twist over the GB hockey team. Similarly there is the British and Irish Lions Rugby Union team. I'm not particularly excited about it, but I don't mind. There's plenty of other things in the world to get upset about. 1 Link to comment
Clydeside_Sheep Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I am pro a team GB in the Olympics, but not in proper football. Link to comment
Sonoftherock Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 What's the problem? Whether or not football should be an olympic sport; it is an olympic sport at the moment. Great Britain and Northern Ireland are represented in lots of sports. If there is a GB cycling / volleyball / canoe slalom, so why not football? You don't hear about the English / Scottish / Welsh / NI hockey associations getting their knickers in a twist over the GB hockey team. Similarly there is the British and Irish Lions Rugby Union team. I'm not particularly excited about it, but I don't mind. There's plenty of other things in the world to get upset about. I agree. Incidentally, if I was a top level footballer, there is no way I'd even consider getting involved with Olympic football. Total irrelevant waste of time and energy. Link to comment
Byrne Baby Byrne Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I would be all over it. So I could win a medal and cut about like Kurt Angle 2 Link to comment
Rubinho Escocia Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Olympics football is a joke with arbitrary age rules resulting in a tournament that nobody can recall who won because nobody really cares. That said we're unlikely to have any players called up, so if some Celtic players got called up and it aversely impacted their European qualification hopes it may have some value... 1 Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Actually a good point... I can't remember who won in 2012.Correct.Its not work worrying about.Unless your African or SA; they take it seriously. Its nothing more than a 3rd tier Intl tournament.if you can grasp that concept then the idea of "team GB" will never bother you. Link to comment
dave_min Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Actually a good point... I can't remember who won in 2012. I think it was Haiti. I went to see South Korea v Gabon at the last Olympics, and it was by far the second worst game i've ever seen in my life. Link to comment
RAZOR Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I think it was Haiti. I went to see South Korea v Gabon at the last Olympics, and it was by far the second worst game i've ever seen in my life. Was the 4-0 defeat at Rugby Park in 2004 the worst? Link to comment
dave_min Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Was the 4-0 defeat at Rugby Park in 2004 the worst? I wasn't there. I don't believe i've been to Rugby Park since December the 20th, 1997. I'm not going back until Biffy Clyro are playing. Link to comment
RAZOR Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I wasn't there. I don't believe i've been to Rugby Park since December the 20th, 1997. I'm not going back until Biffy Clyro are playing. What a bounce it wasn't. I missed my General Standard Grade Biology exam for it. Took a risk and let it all ride on the Credit paper. Link to comment
Ke1t Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Not sure what the point of a British Team (to fuck with this Team GB pish) would be, since only English players would be used, Link to comment
V for Vendetta Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Team GB, pish. Who cares. Certainly not worth getting excited or upset about. Just let the english enter all their players as usual and lets all move on eh. Link to comment
Redstar Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I always thought the Olympics was for amature's...seems not these days...the Olympic football would be far more interesting if the players had to be amature's...could spawn a few fairytale moments as Dave the butcher got spotted and signed for Man Utd...great TV Link to comment
ChutneyLove Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I have as much in common and likelihood to support some guffs playing for a team GB side as I do the guffs / huns / tims playing for Scotland. I have went right aff international fitba. Link to comment
zander Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Not sure what the point of a British Team (to fuck with this Team GB pish) would be, since only English players would be used, The only people that would get wound up about that are weird tartan army types who support a team full of guffs anyway. Link to comment
The Boofon Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I admittedly got a bit carried away with Great Britain in 2012. Olympics, Mo Farah double gold, Cycling golds smashing everyone all over the track, Sir Wiggo winning the TdF and so on. The football I couldn't raise any interest. Don't follow Scotland let alone GB team in Olympic competition. I think because each nation has their own team it doesn't work. The British Lions works in rugby because it's been around for a while and the team is generally a broad mix of all nations so easier to identify with. Rugby fans are also perceived to be a bit posher than football fans and more in with the Great Britain thing anyway. If the team had a guaranteed two picks for each nation in the starting 11 it might work. Of course that's not going to be the strongest team but it might galvanise the nations to support team GB. Link to comment
daytripping Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I'd rather we had a team GB for the full team than the current status, we're just a region of Britain at the end of the day, we voted no to independence and should just play as the one Country, weird that we're the only Country allowed multiple entries, I believe it's as we're original members but that should really change. We'd be quite a team if the regions played under the one banner. 1 Link to comment
The Boofon Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I'd rather we had a team GB for the full team than the current status, we're just a region of Britain at the end of the day, we voted no to independence and should just play as the one Country, weird that we're the only Country allowed multiple entries, I believe it's as we're original members but that should really change. We'd be quite a team if the regions played under the one banner. Stop it. Nobody thinks you actually believe that pish. Link to comment
daytripping Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I do!! I may be in the minority but I could support a team gb as easily as I could Scotland, you don't see regions of Germany entering teams, why should we be any different, one Country, one Nation. I'd do away with Holyrood as well but that's for a different thread. Imagine if we combined, we could be serious contenders, besides only fair on other Countries who can only enter once. Link to comment
dave_min Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 We should compete as Team EU. None of this separatist 'GB' nonsense. Afterall, we are "Better Together". Link to comment
Old Wing Stand Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 At the Olympic I like to see Scots athletes do weel as for the English I love to see them flop just the same as most Scots like the England football team to fail Link to comment
360 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Maybe we should let you guys vote on it... 1 Link to comment
The Boofon Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Maybe we should let you guys vote on it... I'll be at the next Olympic Games with an AB56 flag. Fuck AB55. That's Keith and bale chucking country. Link to comment
boboisared Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I always thought the Olympics was for amature's...seems not these days...the Olympic football would be far more interesting if the players had to be amature's...could spawn a few fairytale moments as Dave the butcher got spotted and signed for Man Utd...great TVAbsolute uproar when Bruce picks an all Sportsman's XI for Team GB. Link to comment
daytripping Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Sturridge, Bale, Scott Brown in midfield, team GB could be potential World cup winners, don't anyone tell me they wouldn't like to see that. Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Could have a bexy style rumble-off to see who could lead a united team GB firm into Rio. Link to comment
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