Thread: Why is your Olympic team called Great Britain?
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Old 12-16-2008, 02:46 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by BCWWF View Post
Olympic football really isn't that bad, it's really just the main tournament that Europe doesn't really try for. I mean, wasn't Belgium there in Beijing? But the South American, North American and African nations take it pretty seriously.

From talking to journalists when I was at the Olympics it sounded like there probably will be a Team GB for football, but like you guys have said, the individual federations would probably not agree to unite and it would end up being all English or Scottish or Welsh or Northern Irish.
Those other nations certainly do not take it seriously. And there is absolutely no chance I'll support this team. It's not British for a start.
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