GB Olympic Football Team.

[Janczyk]

Can I ask why you're not proud to be British?

There must be reasons?

Great Britain isn't a country. England is a country. I am from the country of England.

If you ask any Scottish person whether they're British; they'll say they're Scottish, not British. It's arrogance. I share that feeling to be honest though. Great Britian isn't a country so how can we be that nationality? I don't own a British flag - I own an English flag. I am from England.

[Browney]

You sure this team is going to be all English? Take it you haven't seen the crop of youngsters coming through the Welsh ranks.

Ramsey and Collison :eusa_clap

Who'd be in the squad though? I guess it's abit early to guess. Even the players now who we consider to be good but young like Joe Hart, Campbell and Mancienne will be too old by the time comes...

[Geraint]

That's a different debate all together really. If that's the case also, there shouldn't be a confederations cup?

why not? the confederations cup is for the winners of European Championships, African Cup of Nations etc.

[Wolverhampton]

That's told me, I always thought the confederations cup was the same sort of set-up as the Olympic football tournament, nvm.

[JackBuddy]

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

Gunter, Bale, Ramsey, Collison.

A bit naive of you to say that... but I find it pathetic that every country apart from England thinks that it will lead to a combined british football term permanently.

[Geraint]

Gunter, Bale, Ramsey, Collison.

A bit naive of you to say that... but I find it pathetic that every country apart from England thinks that it will lead to a combined british football term permanently.

Sepp Blatter even said it will.

[JackBuddy]

Sepp Blatter even said it will.

There's no contract that says that the teams permanently has to sign. England wants to have an independant footballing body just as much as another other British country.

@Browney, possibly players like Jonjo Shelvey, John Bostock etc

[Wolverhampton]

I thought Sepp Blatter was quoted not long ago saying that a GB team would be ok for a one off occasion?

[Cixso]

I won't be supporting team GB either way.

Football has it's own major sport federations. Why do we need to play football in the Olympics?

Leave it as the world cup etc.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Hmm, talk about a history and geography lecture, lol.

Can I ask why you do not support the Olympics? I agree that it costs a lot of money, but it will rejuvenate the west end/east end (can't remember where it's located now, lol@me) - it has created 10's of 1000's of jobs, and nothing will make me (and I'm sure the rest of the GB) more proud to be British than seeing a state of the art, world class Olympic village and facilities, and showing off our dominance of the sporting world and also showing off our wealth and love for sport. (**** America.) More so nothing would make me more proud to see out great sporting athletes of all sports and backgrounds, being crowned Olympic champions in their respected sports, in the world class sporting facilities that we are going to be providing, and nothing will make me more proud than seeing our winning athletes, draped in the union jack, to the sounds of our national anthem, all in BRITAIN.

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. England is a country. I am from the country of England.

If you ask any Scottish person whether they're British; they'll say they're Scottish, not British. It's arrogance. I share that feeling to be honest though. Great Britian isn't a country so how can we be that nationality? I don't own a British flag - I own an English flag. I am from England.

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.