Surely there will be a lack of interest in this meaningless team. Wales and Scotland are saying that it would threaten their independance, surely with a hard domestic season a certainty, and also the Euro 2012 championships, this is going to be a waste of time, the players would need rest for the coming season, and clubs would be reluctant to release their players. Beckham said he would be keen to play, but he would want a cap for a knockaround on Brighton beach, as he has got cheap caps, for a few minutes on the field.
i think footballs addition to the games is to maximise profits and nothing more it will mean the england squad doing even less well in major tournaments I do think thta in the spirit of the olympics the teams should be from the lower leagues Not multimillionaire footballers
Other countries take it seriously, it's the only way that anyone from these isles can enter it, there's no suggestion of doing away with the separate national teams for other competitions and it's mainly youngsters. What's the problem?
A lot of the Olympics is fair enough competitive sport and GB coming fourth in the medals table last time was a great achievement. The bollocks bits imo are the sports such as dancing with ribbons, synchronised swimming and pretty much all gymnastics with its panel of judges. The big three win masses of medals in the these events. Before Russia picked up another 20 golds for vaulting and balencing on a bar, GB were ahead of them for most of the competition.
