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Orior
19-01-2007, 20:32
Excellent news, and hopefully will happen soon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6280591.stm

gazzae
19-01-2007, 20:44
Can't see the IFA or the FAI being too keen.

Hugh
19-01-2007, 20:45
What next - an all UK football team?

Delta Whiskey
19-01-2007, 21:05
What next - an all UK football team?

That'll never happen because the individual FA's would have to give up their separate entries to the World Cup etc.

Saying that, I would have loved to have seen Ryan Giggs and Ian Rush playing in the World Cup finals.

DW

TheDaddy
19-01-2007, 21:08
That'll never happen because the individual FA's would have to give up their separate entries to the World Cup etc.

Saying that, I would have loved to have seen Ryan Giggs and Ian Rush playing in the World Cup finals.

DW

We used to play at the Olympics as Great Britain, there is/ was talk of us doing it again at 2012

Osem
25-02-2007, 14:43
Excellent news, and hopefully will happen soon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6280591.stm

Won't happen - too many snouts in the respective national feeding troughs.

SatelliteTVTalk
27-03-2007, 16:48
That'll never happen because the individual FA's would have to give up their separate entries to the World Cup etc. And quite right too - nothing to get the blood boiling like home internationals!! :-D

Russ
27-03-2007, 16:52
Thread amended to remove the americanism :D

gazzae
27-03-2007, 17:01
Thread amended to remove the americanism :D

Or an Irishism.

In a lot of places in Ireland football if you talk about football they will assume you mean Gaelic football.

Russ
27-03-2007, 17:10
OK...I'll let you off on a technicality....

AndyCambs
27-03-2007, 17:20
What next - an all UK football team?

Why stop there - do away with the individual country teams and just have a European team...

TheDaddy
27-03-2007, 18:56
Why stop there - do away with the individual country teams and just have a European team...

Because none of our (UK) players would get a look in perhaps

SatelliteTVTalk
28-03-2007, 13:11
Because none of our (UK) players would get a look in perhaps

John Terry, Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney

OK - I know England are misfiring at the moment, but I'd fancy those three to get into any European side!

TheDaddy
28-03-2007, 13:35
John Terry, Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney

OK - I know England are misfiring at the moment, but I'd fancy those three to get into any European side!

I wouldn't, when you look at their international records they are distinctly average

Fingy
28-03-2007, 23:50
Hmm... We're not Brazil We're Northern Ireland wouldn't work with an all Ireland team. :shrug: