A Great Britain team

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henrywilliams58

21-06-2014

England can invade Wales (again). Forget about Scotland and Northern ireland. Nothing to see there.

Originally Posted by FMKK:
“The only difference it would realistically make is that Bale and Ramsey would start in that England side. Adding those two players isn't going to make any team worse.”

Just pay these two to come over. There is always a price. And then get rid of them as per Kevin Pietersen after they have the Three Lions tattooed on their arms.

Heck Irishman Eoin Morgan captains England at Cricket.

jenzie

21-06-2014

Originally Posted by howard h:
“I wonder what would happen if one "country" had two FA's. It might even happen somewhere? Belgium clearly doesn't, but that country would be ripe for having a Wallonia FA and Flemish FA.”

the isle of man ACTUALLY DOES have two football association ..... kind of .....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of..._football_team

speculator

21-06-2014

Originally Posted by Lojen:
“I was thinking about something like this recently. I mean over the years a lot of great players never got a sniff of a world cup as their national teams are just never good enough to qualify. Maybe there could be a spot reserved for a world XI. A nominated manager could pick a squad of players from among all the nations that failed to qualify. Probably an awful idea, but hey it would at least get some great players into the world cup.”

Football is the world sport. So it is the opportunity for everyone to be patriotic and be proud of their nationality. Gibraltar is not entering Euro 2016 expecting to qualify for the finals. Likewise England does not qualify for the World Cup and European Championships Finals to win them. It is so every 2 years their football followers have a different destination to watch their nation play football. I expect they are already researching Qatar in readiness for 2022.

Obviously the OP considers herself as British and not English. She has events like the forthcoming Commonwealth Games to celebrate being British.

Joooe

21-06-2014

Originally Posted by speculator:
“Football is the world sport. So it is the opportunity for everyone to be patriotic and be proud of their nationality. Gibraltar is not entering Euro 2016 expecting to qualify for the finals. Likewise England does not qualify for the World Cup and European Championships Finals to win them. It is so every 2 years their football followers have a different destination to watch their nation play football. I expect they are already researching Qatar in readiness for 2022.

Obviously the OP considers herself as British and not English. She has events like the forthcoming Commonwealth Games to celebrate being British.”

There's no British team in the Commonwealth Games.

It's what makes it so good.

batdude_uk1

21-06-2014

Originally Posted by Joooe:
“There's no British team in the Commonwealth Games.

It's what makes it so good.”

Yes, that is what makes it so good!

As it is different from the Olympics, and you get to see different people at the tournament due to the four regions being apart.

howard h

21-06-2014

Originally Posted by jenzie:
“the isle of man ACTUALLY DOES have two football association ..... kind of .....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of..._football_team”

Isle of Man compete in the Island Games as well. I'm totally lost as, having a separate FA, they can't join UEFA as Gibraltar clearly can. I read that the IOM's entry is much later than Gib's and has now been excluded on technicalities, whereas Gib's has been backdated.

At least it's one less team Ingurland can be beaten by.

TrebleKing

21-06-2014

Not one Scot would get within miles of a UK team.

Syntax Error

22-06-2014

Originally Posted by Jenny_Sawyer:
“I think that England & Scotland & Wales should join up for football; just imagine if we'd had the benefit of Gareth Bale in the team for this WC......”

We'd certainly be better with the likes of Gareth Bale (who wouldn't, he's world class) in the England setup; also, you can add the resurgent Aaron Ramsey to the list, but, ultimately, I don't think we'd do too much better than we're doing right now.

Syntax Error

22-06-2014

Originally Posted by henrywilliams58:
“England can invade Wales (again). Forget about Scotland and Northern ireland. Nothing to see there.

Just pay these two to come over. There is always a price. And then get rid of them as per Kevin Pietersen after they have the Three Lions tattooed on their arms.

Heck Irishman Eoin Morgan captains England at Cricket.”

The England cricket team should be renamed, 'Passports 'R' Us!

If you can swing a bat well or chuck a leather ball in a straight line, the ECB will give you a passport & a central contract, no matter where you're from!!

The FA might want to learn some lessons there.

alexjones

22-06-2014

how would that help? Scotland and wales are even worse when it comes to football than England are, they didn't even qualify for the world cup.

KarlHyde

22-06-2014

Originally Posted by howard h:
“It's a good shout, but technically the nearest to the UK situation could be if Greenland (don't laugh...look it up!) joined (either) UEFA/FIFA as they are within the Kingdom of Denmark.”

Greenland does have a national handball team that manages to qualify for the World Championships - as a member of the Pan-American federation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenla..._handball_team

So maybe Scotland could join CONCACAF in order to qualify for the FIFA World Cup.

snukr

22-06-2014

Originally Posted by KarlHyde:
“Greenland does have a national handball team that manages to qualify for the World Championships - as a member of the Pan-American federation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenla..._handball_team

So maybe Scotland could join CONCACAF in order to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. ”

They wouldn't qualify even if they were in the Oceania group.

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