a question for the british football fans

They dont want amatuers though, they want Beckham etc

I think we should have a british football (can't really bring myself to call it soccer) team. However it should be composed entirely of amateurs. Bit like Queens Park or the SFA.

There are enough really good players in the various conferences / juniors to make it happen.

But then at the start of every season i believe that Rangers will win the League, both cups, the champions league, the super cup and be recognised as the best team on the planet. All of this while playing football that makes Brazil look like a bunch of Sunday league hackers.

David

I think there should be a British Olympic football team but ONLY AMATEURS, no professionals. Would really bring the amateur game through in Britain and find young talent for all the home nations. As long as we placed an age limitation on it say, 21 years old maximum and reopened the old academy (or founded a new one) at Lilleshall then all of the home nations could bring talent through and stop the influx of foreigners into the british game. Now I know Brazil, Cameroon, Argentina etc put pro's into their teams but if the olympic comittee just changed the rules then it would be great. I can remember seeing Carlos Tevez, Lionel Messi and Javier Saviola play in the last one and just thinking it was really unfair. If you put a Conference North/South limitation on the level of footballer, coupled with the age limit (also change the limitation on leagues to reflect Wales, Scotland and Northern Irelands individual set-ups) A bit far-fetched I know but would be interesting to see, in rugby league the team is GB so why not have a team GB football team and use it as a talent finder??

No

Having a British team then puts pressure on the individual associations to amalganate. If it starts with olympic then the pressure then starts for the same in all competitions and the collapse of 4 football associations.

It would all end in tears.

I'm writing this listening to the football on the radio and St Mirren have just gone a goal down to Motherwell. The tears have started already.

UYK,

Do we still have pound notes?
I haven't seen one for ages.

David

Why do they use the same name, no, FOOTBALL HAS TO BE AND REMAIN FOOTBALL.
IT is sad that the word "soccer" (derived from the word "sucker") is used in the USA.

USA FOOTBALL should be HANDBALL, it has nothing to do with a foot

they also use the word soccer in New Zealand as well. My brother moved there ;ast year and all the time in his emails he mentions soccer. He never used this word before but he says he says it now because everyone else does there. If he mentions football they would not know he was talking about football as in the real football,lol

Now americans cannot call their game hand ball as they do use their feet too I think???
American football so i am led to believe is really called gridion, or is that an entirely different game? or maybe the american football derived from gridion?

If they started calling it a different name they would be totally confused.

I just dont like it when people that call it soccer start dictating that it is called soccer as they have their own football term.

Even the french I think call it soccer, or the few french I have talked to called it soccer. maybe they were deliberatly winding me up?
But since football was invented in china then reinvented in the UK with a scotsman from the Aberdeen area making up the rules ( yes, I am sorry english people, this is true. it was proven last year sometime) and it was called football then in the 14 centuary I think???? ( probably completely wrong with the era) it should be known as FOOTBALL all over the world. Even before america got invaded by western folk the game was getting played.

Also, while on the subject of football. I have to let my useless info into your minds too so you know as much as me
It was a scotasman that took the rules of football and leagues for football over to Brazil and set the foundations of them being so good at the game. So, us scots have shot ourselves in the foot a bit by doing that.
Also, I think a lot of Scottish women should emmigrate to Brazil and take their young children with them so they can grow up playing and breathing football, eating football, being fantastic at football, then when hey are 16 they get a flight back over to scotland and become the greatest bestest footy team in the world.

Now, thats a plan!!!

Ken

No because we want to keep our national identities but if it has to happen then a team of amatuer or junior footballers should be the choice.

Top pro's play too much games as it is.

Well I thought Ronaldo was getting passed it a bit but after last weeks game with Celtic and barca, I am changing my mind slightly, he is still very good. I tihnk people just expect too much out of him all the time, everytime.

the haterd between rangers and celtic is very sily indeed, so silly it caused me to stop going to celtic games years ago.
But now my son is getting that age where celtic footy team is more important than any other sport, I am finding myself taking him to the game on Wednesday to watch them play Inverness cally. After that I think I will be taking him to more and more, but never to a game where they are playing rangers. Then when he is old enough I can stop going again. All that money could buy a few guitars a year.

Ken

upyerkilt - as you say, here in NZ its always soccer for the round ball. Football here is rugby, which is the national religion after taking the piss out of Aussies. It was a national day of mourning when we got booted out of the World Cup, the only consolation was SO WERE THE AUSSIES.