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Thread #146136   Message #3385933
Posted By: Allan Conn
04-Aug-12 - 04:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Olympic Games
Subject: RE: BS: The Olympic Games
"and you don't agree with the idea of a UK women's football team.
Would that have anything to do with fact that in international contests they are showing a consistency of success which puts their vastly overpaid prima donna male counterparts to shame and degradation."

actually there has been no consistency of success. This is the first time there has ever been a UK women's team (ie Team GB) and the first time for 50 years that there has been a UK men's team. There had been opposition to the formation of the UK teams within Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from both the general public and the football associations themselves. So if he opposes the idea of a women's team altogether then yes, he is a dinosaur - but if he opposes the principle of a joint team then he's in line with the majority of the football associations in the UK.

I take it you are meaning they are doing better than the English football team? In truth they've done much the same as England often do. Get through the group then lose in the next round.