GB Olympic Football Team.

[Loser]

What Scottish and Welsh players would get in anyway? I see a place, maybe, for Craig Gordon - that's all.

Ramsey would, probably alot more from Wales aswell (considerring the Olympics is in 2012, and most our national side are about 19/20)

[Catzsy]

Oops it's me I don't understand the Welsh and Scot's attitude on this at all. The Lions Rugby Union team are from all the home rugby nations and it has never effected the individual rugby side from the different nations so why should it effect the home nation football teams. They have really missed an opportunity I feel to raise the game's profile, particuarly in Wales where Rugby is King.

I am english but have lived in Wales a long time and I do see myself as British.

[Wolverhampton]

How can I put this in a simple way.

• These jobs that are being created will not be sustainable jobs and will not exist after the Olympics are held.
• The stadium is no use to the vast majority of the people in this country.
• The Olympics don't interest a lot of people at all in this country.
• The taxpayers of this country don't want their money wasted on a tacky event which lasts for around two weeks.
• The amount of money being used is not justifiable to spend on a sporting event.
• This country is in debt and doesn't need more debt.
• The budget has gone overboard, what was promised to be a budget of around one or two billion has gone to 12 billion and will not doubt go higher, not including the costs of security surrounding the games.
• The stadium after use will not be used, and don't pretend it will be. Just take a look at Athens and the countless other games which are now falling down.
• At a cost of around twelve billion these Olympics are costing more than half the cost of a new Trident system which I, and anyone with any common sense realise is far more important than a two week sporting event.
• The chances of a terrorist attack occuring around the time of the game is vastly higher and will most likely occur.

Your promoting this as some multi-cultural event which will see us at the top of the world, when most people don't actually care about the Olympics. Your apparent hate towards America has nothing to do with the games, or perhaps it has, maybe your jealous of America winning so much all the time - if that is the case then what kind of 'Olympic spirit' is that?

If the government want to promote sporting then why don't they invest in new swimming pools and facilities in schools, that will reach a heck of a lot more people rather than a small minority of people in East London, London, the capital of this country which already has a oversized budget compared to the rest of the country.

I have a good idea, how about all the people who actually want the Olympics can pay for it themselves, along with this Labour government who seem very keen to spend our money on their useless and waste-of-time projects.

When we haven't got people dying on the NHS because their local trust can't afford certain drugs to lengthen their livespan, then and only then maybe i'd consider spending money on tatty, two week games.



Great Britain isn't a country and neither is England. The Kingdom of England as stated above, does no longer exist. You have never lived in a state called England - technically, as that state and the Kingdom of Scotland and so on all combined in the 1880's and before, to form Great Britain and later on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and then when Irish independance was granted the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

I'm proud to be British and English, and I won't let some scottish nationalists ruin this great nation, which built the world as we know it.

This was a footballing debate. Not a politics debate, I really do hope you grow up to be a politician... you really do have the knowledge to be involved in it.

TBH, some of your post is flawed, but due to the vast size of it I really cannot be bothered picking out all the flawed comments.

Although you have vast politics knowledge, you really haven't got a fiddle when it comes to talking about sports? The Olympics, the biggest sports event in the world, if not the biggest event of any kind in the world? which is actually a 3-4 week event, this waste-of-time project is going to earn our country billions of profit on top of what we have already spent funding the Olympic games (£7BN), and you think all of this isn't going to benefit our country, just because it's held in our capital? please could you really see it being held in our second City, Birmingham? give it a break.

That's the only flaw I can be bothered to pick out as the rest is truly an essay.

Oops it's me I don't understand the Welsh and Scot's attitude on this at all. The Lions Rugby Union team are from all the home rugby nations and it has never effected the individual rugby side from the different nations so why should it effect the home nation football teams. They have really missed an opportunity I feel to raise the game's profile, particuarly in Wales where Rugby is King.

I am english but have lived in Wales a long time and I do see myself as British.

Another one of my amazing threads, eh?

Do agree with you also.

[-:Undertaker:-]

This was a footballing debate. Not a politics debate, I really do hope you grow up to be a politician...

TBH, some of your post is flawed, but due to the vast size of it I really cannot be bothered picking out all the flawed comments.

It is indeed a sporting debate, however due to the closeness of politics and football in this case, considering you asked me why I don't support the Olympics then there was your answer.

The only flawed part I have just spotted myself, the fact I didn't mention Great Britain as a Kingdom which it was. To say something is majorly flawed and not mention why, means your side is even more flawed.

As for you stating the games will give us a profit, please provide evidence of past games profit outweighing their original cost, so that the host country made a profit.

[Geraint]

Oops it's me I don't understand the Welsh and Scot's attitude on this at all. The Lions Rugby Union team are from all the home rugby nations and it has never effected the individual rugby side from the different nations so why should it effect the home nation football teams. They have really missed an opportunity I feel to raise the game's profile, particuarly in Wales where Rugby is King.

I am english but have lived in Wales a long time and I do see myself as British.

because there's about 20 different unions in rugby and there's around 200 football associations. There's pressure coming in from other countries - African countries and FIFA's vice-president Jack Warner. The FAW want to preserve their youngsters status. Yes, maybe they are ruining some players chances of playing at the Olympics but in doing so, they're saving a load of others if team GB becomes permanent.

[-:Undertaker:-]

This was a footballing debate. Not a politics debate, I really do hope you grow up to be a politician...

TBH, some of your post is flawed, but due to the vast size of it I really cannot be bothered picking out all the flawed comments.

Although you have vast politics knowledge, you really haven't got a fiddle when it comes to talking about sports? The Olympics, the biggest sports event in the world, if not the biggest event of any kind in the world? which is actually a 3-4 week event, this waste-of-time project is going to earn our country billions of profit on top of what we have already spent funding the Olympic games (£7BN), and you think all of this isn't going to benefit our country, just because it's held in our capital? please could you really see it being held in our second City, Birmingham? give it a break.

That's the only flaw I can be bothered to pick out as the rest is truly an essay.

Then it will not benefit the country as a whole, how about London based taxpayers funding the bill and not the rest of the country?

[Wolverhampton]

You deserve a place in the house of commons, how your debates are structured are just like that of what I hear every so often on Sky News.

You really don't get it, and as you are a Conservative lover, I bet your life is to upper-class, to busy and to great for having any time for any sort of sports, rite?

[champions]

walofs

who honesty cares about a british olympic team? not me

united >>>>>>> british olympic team

[Wolverhampton]

walofs

who honesty cares about a british olympic team? not me

united >>>>>>> british olympic team

Do you support England?

[Jam]

I do believe some team (West Ham, I think) is trying to get permission to use the stadium afterwards, but I still agree with Dan about how unessicary they are for us, and no way in hell will 'we' make a profit from 2012.