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Thread: Great Britain Football Team in Olympics?

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    Quote Originally Posted by maebach
    are we forgetting beckham?

    Yes, for a very good reason


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    Quote Originally Posted by Peerzy
    Quote Originally Posted by maebach
    are we forgetting beckham?

    Yes, for a very good reason
    Yeah, I think we were on about left wingers and the Olympics ... he's a right sided midfielder who'll be about 53 by the time the Landan Olympics come around


    I only mentioned Giggs cos I him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fake Shemp
    In the real world (ie out of the puntsphere world) we count as one nation afaik. How come we have gotten away with 4 international teams in puntsphere for so long? I like it that way but if someone had wanted to reduce us to just a UK team there seems to be a good argument there.

    Perhaps because there is a seperate league for each team? But then that gets confused with Swansea, Cardiff, Berwick, Wimbledon...

    Or is it because we invented the game, it's our ball and we'll take it home if you disagree with us?
    That's a good point, I have no idea.

    In some sports it's Great Britain, like athletics, and in others it's separate, like proper rugby.*

    And some, like rugby league, it's both separate and together, depending on the weather or something - Plus in cricket we're called England even though it's a Great Britain team




    *Hang on, it's separate in athletics if it's the Commonwealth Games and together in rugby if it's a Lions tour
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  4. Sports Club   -   #34
    Quote Originally Posted by manker
    Quote Originally Posted by Peerzy


    Yes, for a very good reason
    Yeah, I think we were on about left wingers and the Olympics ... he's a right sided midfielder who'll be about 53 by the time the Landan Olympics come around


    I only mentioned Giggs cos I him.

    Duff looks teh seckzy before he starts running arround.

    Lampard looks seckzy all teh time

    Ronaldo looks like a poof



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    Quote Originally Posted by Peerzy
    Ronaldo looks like a poof

    he's also got that 'There's Something About Mary' thing going on

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fake Shemp
    Or is it because we invented the game, it's our ball and we'll take it home if you disagree with us?
    Yes, sort of, but not the ball bit.

    It's because we 'invented' the game, in fact we set the rules, the Chinese played a football type game thousands of years ago.

    The reason Britain refuses to take part in the Olympics is so as not to set a precedent, and lose their four places.

    This begs the question; in the event of a united Europe as a single state, would they then be entitled to only one team? The USA has 50 states, what if they all wanted their own team, like Europe?

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    Didn't Great Britain compete in the last London Olympics (at puntsphere obviously).

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPaul
    Didn't Great Britain compete in the last London Olympics (at puntsphere obviously).
    Later than that...

    http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/NewsFromT...lympic_bid.htm

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    Quote Originally Posted by barbarossa
    Quote Originally Posted by JPaul
    Didn't Great Britain compete in the last London Olympics (at puntsphere obviously).
    Later than that...

    http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/NewsFromT...lympic_bid.htm
    1972, I would never have guessed that.

    So there's recent precedent, well recent for someone my age.
    Last edited by Barbarossa; 04-03-2007 at 12:45 PM.

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    I plan on beating him to death with his kids. I'll use them as a bludgeon on his face. -

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