by - written on 24/03/01, updated on 24/03/01 (Useful, 11 readings)
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I think that the UK football team is a bad idea... 1) because it would basically be the England team with a few extras. 2) because it wouldn't really help that much. 3) because Eire wouldn't be involved and they have some great players that we would need and 4) We wouldn't have the friendly rivalry that ... Read the complete review
by - written on 24/03/01, updated on 24/03/01 (Very useful, 70 readings)
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The prospect of a United Kingdom football team, instead of the current, separate state of the home countries is an idea that has been floating around the sporting world for quite some time now. It all stems back to the fact that, in athletics, at present we, as England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all going under ... Read the complete review
by - written on 28/02/01, updated on 28/02/01 (9 readings)
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Although the concept would seem an appealing one, the practical side of things have to be a no no. Being from Northern Ireland my argument is simple. We would have no where to watch International football. Being realistic for a minute there isn't must chance of many of the N.Ireland squad making it into a UK squad. I think ... Read the complete review
by - written on 17/02/01, updated on 17/02/01 (Useful, 15 readings)
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If the nations of the UK were to combine on the football field it would no doubt improve the quality of our team. It would certainly end England’s search for a left winger. However, as much as a UK side would improve our chances of success on the international stage, it is very doubtful that such a concept will ever materialise. ... Read the complete review
by - written on 10/02/01, updated on 10/02/01
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Well, what can I say about people thinking of creating a United Kingdom Football Team? In my opinion, there are many reasons why there should or shouldn't be a UK Football Team. To start off with, I will talk about all of the positive reasons why a UK Football Team would be good. As most of you will know, England are ... Read the complete review
by - written on 02/02/01, updated on 02/02/01 (Useful, 20 readings)
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The prospect of a UK football team is one of the most ludicrous ideas i have heard for a long long time and there are several reasons why this will not work. The first of these is patriotism. Ask a welshman what nationality he and he'll say welsh ask a scot he'll say scottish, ask an englishman and he'll say English. Each of ... Read the complete review
by - written on 01/02/01, updated on 01/02/01 (Very useful, 17 readings)
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The recent(ish) Euro 2000 playoff between England and Scotland demonstrated several interesting points. The sides were not that far apart in ability. The fans still hold a massive amount of rivalry between them. The game captured the nation for a period of weeks, it was well covered and folowed by all forms of ... Read the complete review
by - written on 20/01/01, updated on 22/05/02
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We are never going to have a unified UK footy team as the government are pulling us a part with devolution,than exercising any thoughts of unity. If there was a team,this could be it.Manager.Venables. 1)(Eng)WRIGHT.............. IPSWICH TOWN .Best young keeper around.No more of that floppy fringed wally Seamen ... Read the complete review
by - written on 15/01/01, updated on 15/01/01 (Very useful, 7 readings)
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If we were to have this so called 'UK XI' then how could we ever sing the infamous song, which brings the terraces alive 'Three Lions', again! The main reason is that in our moden society each nations 'home' is different, and it just wouldn't be right. A Scots would only want to bring football home to Scotland ... Read the complete review
by - written on 10/01/01, updated on 10/01/01 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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Never going to happen. Who would really want to do it? Nobody. Would the players? I don't think so. As a novel one off maybe but to have a uk football team at the expense of the seperate ones is stupid. From an English point of view what would be the point? The only player we would want would be Giggs and lets face it if ... Read the complete review
by - written on 30/12/00, updated on 30/12/00 (Very useful, 15 readings)
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I don't know enough about the current players to understand whether the effect of this measure would be to strengthen the chances of the team - if it did, it's just one more reason not to do it. Anyone who lives in England and has a clear head knows that for most English people, England and Great Britain are ... Read the complete review
by - written on 30/12/00, updated on 30/12/00
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The idea of a UK football team is an exceptionally brave idea, but is actually a very sensible one! We all know how poorly the English national side have been playing recently, but our lads have outperformed the likes of Scotland, Wales and the Irish sides by a long way (although Scotland should have been in Euro 2000 - ... Read the complete review
by - written on 30/12/00, updated on 30/12/00 (Useful, 13 readings)
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I personally think it’s a great idea and that everyone shouldn’t dismiss it so quickly. The idea has died down somewhat but I think we should consider the option. WHY? Because none of the home nations have done well or look like winning anything. If we put all our resources together we may get ... Read the complete review
by - written on 16/12/00, updated on 16/12/00 (Useful, 3 readings)
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Here we go again, Politicians sticking their noses into everyones affairs for no reason apart from having lost the plot completely. No way would a UK football team work. There are too many problems that would arise like 1. Who is the governing body? 2. Where would it be based? 3. Is there an equal distribution of ... Read the complete review
by - written on 16/12/00, updated on 16/12/00 (Very useful, 30 readings)
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Not many subjects stir up as much controversy and emotion as the state of the National squad, be it Athletics, Rugby, Cricket or dare I say football. With Athletics and Rugby, the individual national squads of the England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland participate as both individual nations (e.g. at the Commonwealth Games and in the Six ... Read the complete review
by - written on 15/12/00, updated on 15/12/00 (5 readings)
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I went to Secondary School with Geoff Hurst in the late 1950's/early 60's at Rainsford School in Chelmsford. 6 or so years later, I was watching my old school colleague score a hat trick in a world cup final. Thinking "im proud to be English today." The logic behind this would have been the same for the scottish if ... Read the complete review
by - written on 12/12/00, updated on 18/11/02
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What class of drugs has Jack Straw been taking when he suggests that the UK should only have one international football team? I have never heard anything quite so ridiculous in all my life! His reasoning (if it can be called reasoning) is that: A) Since we only have one monarchy and one central government we are really only ... Read the complete review
by - written on 09/12/00, updated on 09/12/00 (Very useful, 29 readings)
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Let me say straight out that I don't believe a single United Kingdom football team will ever happen. There are far too many reasons why it will remain a pipe dream. The first, and perhaps the biggest objection is that it would involve the loss of a large amount of tradition and history for each individual home country. How ... Read the complete review
by - written on 08/12/00, updated on 08/12/00 (Useful, 23 readings)
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uk football team I don’t think it will ever work to have a United Kingdom football nation. Loyalties are too strong for the Scottish to start supporting England. And I can’t think of any player that could get in from the other nations like Scotland, Wales and Republic and Northern Ireland apart from Roy Keane and ... Read the complete review
by - written on 03/12/00, updated on 15/02/05 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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This falls into two distinct catagories. Firstly would the UK team be much better. Well in short it should, but it would still be mainly English so the standard would not improve that much. Second what benefits. The answer is None!! The seperate countries all get to have club sides in European competitions. A UK ... Read the complete review
