Olympics Here We Come

May 29th, 2009 | by: Daryl | View Comments

The great 2012 Olympics debate has finally been settled. Or at least very nearly. You may recall that the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish FAs weren’t keen on the idea of a Great Britain football team playing at the 2012 Olympics, mostly because they were irrationally paranoid worried that doing so would threaten their status as individual FAs.

Today those three FAs decided that rather than standing in everyone’s way, they’d give their consent to a Great Britain football team made up exclusively of English players.

Personally I preferred the idea of a four way tournament between England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland with the winner representing GB, but this works too.

The other FAs don’t want to be involved and the 2012 Olympics is in London after all, so in some ways this actually makes sense (if you ignore the bit about the shirt saying GB but the team being 100% English).

This has been fairly big news in England. Sky hosted a Cover it Live chat on the subject, while the Telegraph even took a random stab in the dark at what the 2012 U-23 team would look like.

But it’s not official yet, as the proposal to field an all-English GB team still needs to be approved by Sepp “unpredictable” Blatter.