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2012 GB Football Team Scrapped?
Compare and contrast:
"The four British associations will not lose the rights and privileges acquired back in 1947. They will play with one team but it is up to them how they do it. It can be a mixed team, it can be from just one of the home nations, whatever they want to do."
Sepp Blatter, FIFA President, 1st September 2005
"They should enter only a team composed of players from England. This will then not provoke a long and endless discussion of the four British associations."
Sepp Blatter, FIFA President, 9th March 2008
Err... What?
I, like many, had only accepted a combined GB & NI team for the Olympics based on Blatter's original promise. Many fans warned at the time that this wasn't worth the paper it was written on and it turns out they were right.
There should be no British team at the Olympics at all.
Hat tip to O'Neill.