cheers for the explanation Si. I did think they could pick any player from GB? there are some welsh players for sure. bellamy. anyways, its the olympics.. :-)
eric On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Simon Austin <simon...@auzsoft.net> wrote: > On 25/07/2012 21:49, Eric B wrote: > > some would say the UK is not a nation but a state, others call it a > > nation-state. Depends what you read and who you talk to. The jury is out > on > > that one. As a foreigner I look at it as a state more > > than a nation, ref. the scots wants to have a referendum about > > independence. I ve never seen a nation divorce itself. > It's happened... Sudan/South Sudan, about a year ago. Held a referendum > and everything. Before that, eg Yugoslavia... now five different countries. > > It is definitively not fair that suddenly its team GB in some instances > but > > in other instances its not. IE there is no GB in UEFA and FIFA football. > > But suddenly in the olympics its cool? Suddenly having a vaster pool to > > chose from is a form of cheating me says. Mind you, the french have got a > > bit of the same where they draw on athletes from the old colonies I > think, > > right? > > For some instances, you mean this one time. Normally, there's no Team GB > in Olympic football. They can't qualify because the qualifying > tournament is FIFA's under-21 competition, and there's no Team GB in > that. So, this once, because the host nation automatically qualifies, > there's a Team GB. And the worry is not that it's unfair for this one > time to pick from all of the UK (not that they can, as it's an under-23 > competition), but that FIFA might try and suggest there should only be > one vote from the UK on the IFA Board (cf Blatter "why the hell do they > have four associations and four votes and their own vice-presidency?") > and the upshot of that is that a British team in FIFA/UEFA would > permanently have a vaster pool to choose from (though, to be fair, the > current SFA view is that no-one in the Scottish national team would get > in a GB one... so YMMV), and maybe three other countries would get to > vote on extra linesmen and the offside rule. > > - Si > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: > http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org PETE CASS (1962 - 2011) Rest In Peace Mate
