Dilzybhoy said:
1, whenever a Scot does well in any event he's either English or British.
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I can't think of any reason why any sane Scot would choose to stand on a winners podium to the strains of the BNP anthem that is God save the queen. With it's anti Scots racist verse. (the 3rd one I think)
2, If you want an all UK team go ahead but don't call it a UK team. Just call it England under 23's 'cos that's what it'll be. Not because English players are better but because english players are english.
3, To back this up. Alan Thompson of Celtic was playing the best football seen for years by a left sided English player. He wasn't picked. And France took advantage in Paris at the Euro Championships. Why was he no picked?
4. I don't hate England. England show sottish footballers and Scottish football in general no respect. So what do you expect? Us to behave like good little doggies and beg for the scraps of the table.
1) I too dislike the way that the majority of the English press refer to someone from England as English but when they are from another part of Britain they don't always refer to them as Scottish etc. but as British, especially when referring to sporting achievment. I don't know whether this happens in reverse in the press in other parts of Britain.
Plenty of sane Scots do stand on podia and listen to God Save the Queen, because it is Britain's national anthem. I'm sure that if you are one of the best in the world at what you do, the achievment is far more important to you than whatever music they play at the presentation of your medal. Whilst our national anthem in full has some unpleasant lyrics that would not be acceptable today, in reality these are not generally used when it is played or referred to.
2) Britain competes in the Olympics, not England etc. I would have thought that we would be unable to call the team England even if it were made up of players all from England. I also doubt that we would enter a team if it was not able to select players from all of Britain, even if the squad eventually did not include players from all of Britain. As I have mentioned before, presumably this issue also relates to the women's game and just because you feel that in 7 years time there won't be a male Scottish player capable of being one of the best in his age group in Britain, this may not be the case with the women's game.
3) I don't know.
4) It's not about accepting scraps from England; it's about giving young Scottish footballers the opportunity to take part in one of the biggest sporting events in the world that is being held here.
Generally I couldn't give a shit about the Olympics, whether it was being held here or elsewhere. I also don't really care if we submit a GB team or not in the football, however as host nation in 2012, I think we probably should.
The only reason that I have bothered to post on this thread was that you created a poll which generated a generally negative view yet, in my opinion, there were hardly any valid reasons stated for voting negatively.
The only one that I feel has some merit is the old one of the status of the home nations, which (possibly because of the current poor performance of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) appears to be less of an issue nowadays.
British football history has seen quite a few instances of adminstrators making negative decisions which later seem perverse. Whilst this looks like it might be added to that list, it would be good to see an adminstrator taking a positive decision for a change.
