Why the fuck do they get to have 3 national football teams based on arbitrary subdivisions (4 with Northern Ireland)? This is like the US having a national football team for each of their state.
They should only be allowed to have one team representing all of Great Britain.
how does a toothpaste hit the post button?
>Implying different nations are 'arbitrary subdivisions'
That just means they have to share what they win, meaning England only has a fourth of a world cup.
They're different nations and also because they were the first to play football.
Besides, Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten also play under their own flag despite being a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
why have you circled the germans?
>They should only be allowed to have one team representing all of Great Britain.
Literally nobody would support that. The working classes of each country fucking despise each other, and the working classes are the only ones which truly consistently care about supporting the national football teams.
A Great Britain national football team would be the most fake, plastic team on the international stage. Supported only by politicians and weird middle class gimps that don't even care about football. You would never ever get Dave from Essex and Angus from Glasgow to stand side-by-side cheering the same football team at the World Cup or Euros. It just isn't happening. Look at how almost no one gives a fuck about whatever the "Team GB football team" does at the Olympics.
made me kek
Is this true?
They are different states part of the same country (UK). It’s like North Holland and South Holland being 2 regions part of the Netherlands.
>Besides, Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten also play under their own flag despite being a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Doesn’t make sense either
a lot of people would be unhappy because of lack of representation. It would just be England + Robertson, Tierney and Bale.
I don't think anyone from Northern Ireland would make it. And most people in Scotland and Northern Ireland would not support team GB anyway.
Well played, Hans. Well played.
Because we invented international football.
The UK has only existed for about 300 years. The individual national identities of the UK have been in existence for 1000+
Would any Irish, Welsh or Scottish players even make the England team? Robertson maybe is about it.
We have five national teams too kanker (U.S., Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Guam).
If all you European shitters could get your D and E team overseas territories out of CONCACAF, it might be better than CAF one day.
Robertson walks into the english 11 but that's about it, a few years ago it would have been Bale
Both the men and women's teams qualified for Tokyo 2020 - thanks to England qualifying through their results in tournaments. Though I believe the Scottish and Norn Iron FA blocked the men's team from competing because they're worried about their independence for
A shame. London 2012 was kino.
i don't know what you're arguing. the days of unity around simple blighty are over. lots has fucking changed from the mid 20th century culture.
to put in perspective, in 1914 we had the biggest empire in the world together and in 2014 scotland had a vote to leave the union.
Weird how it only started in the 90s with the St. George's cross started to become more prevalent for England.
Jonny Evans would probably make the squad, or at least would have ocassionally
Those “arbitrary subdivisions” are older than your made up country
England have 3 Olympic gold medals in football. Why can't be have 4 stars above our crest?
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They have separate teams because they invented football and the only way to play international matches was to play against each other.
And that's a good thing. English identity is what we should prize above all else. We are an Anglo-Saxon and Germanic people, entirely genetically and culturally distinct from the Celtic Britons (Welsh), the Scots and Irish. The St George's Cross and the White Dragon Flag should be our national symbols and flown at all sporting events involving ENGLAND.
DAS RITE
>genetically and culturally distinct from the Celtic Britons (Welsh), the Scots and Irish.
Lol no
Willy the bloody basterd bitch would like a word with you.
Kind of by current ongoing studies. But not by that much as some people might think.
when you start splitting hairs between simular northern european groups it gets stupid imo
>They should only be allowed to have one team representing all of Great Britain.
Who is going to force that? Certainly won't be shitty arse swamp krauts like you
Exact opposite. Lefty freaks love the idea of "British identity" and diminishing the idea of any kind of distinct English culture or ethnicity.
so st George Flag as england Flag as a independent country of great britain is a lefty lie? lol pls only right wing (You)
It wasn't the exact opposite at the time, as he literally says in his post, you dimwit.
You people should merge with Belgium desu. You would have won multiple WCs that way.
No they are not just different states but different COUNTRIES you fucking kankermongool
South Holland is actually part of Lincolnshire thanks
Semantics.
Cope
Why does the EU get 27 different representatives?
cause it'd be boring if our ngubus won everything everytime forever
>wwwaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Because we said so
Don't like it? you know where the door is
an eu NT would be even more soulless than a uk NT desu
What
Because Scotland is too powerful
Its quite simple really, though I feel this was a decent bait.
GB is 3 countries and an island, not a country
UK is 4 countries and a political state, not a country
International sports are represented by countries, but in some, the English nationalist government of Westminster has managed to squeeze in team GB. Often beause of funding it gets rolled into one, sometimes because of lack of participation. The funny part is, a large portion of medal winners in Olympics are not from England.
So no, there should not even be a team GB at all, it is not a country or even a cultural indentity, it is just England and its colonies, a relic.
>a large portion of medal winners in Olympics are not from England
Define large portion. Because the vast majority of GB's medal winners in Rio and Tokyo were from England.
You're a retard
Scotland was an equal and willing co-member of the empire olympics. Wales is not a country, it is a province. Hence Great Britain absolutely is a country. Northern Ireland is something else, but that's another story.
Also, with modern immigration, most of them identify as British. So there is a growing, new, vibrant British nationalism. The relic is Scots pretending it's 1300
N.I in tatters
Porridge wog absolutely BTFO
who is the Isle of Man chad?
Mark Cavendish at a guess?
his wife's hot
Damn I wasnt even aware, thanks Brtibro. TIL
Because there are four nations in the UK. Did you think the name ‘united kingdom’ was done for just a lark? A single unified ‘British’ identity is a holdover from the Empire, when everyone from Canadians to Kenyans to Malayans would broadly be referred to as British. In the motherland, it was always specified if someone was English/Welsh/Irish/Scottish/Manx.
The english are genetically and culturally closer to the Welsh than to the Germans. The UK and Ireland are the last stronghold for Celtic identity, and should be protected from foreign subversion at all costs. England is celtic.
>thanks to England qualifying through their results in tournaments
Many such cases for the Olympics where the team events are concerned - rugby and hockey too.
‘State’ is just a political term for a country. The German states historically were all independent nations who joined in a union, and the same thing happened in the US.
To ever seen a Welshman mate? We're not
True to a degree. Depending on where in England it's 10-40% Germanic.
No comment needed.
>London and Ulster bother chiefly report themselves as ‘British’
Reckon its for very different reasons, though
>England is Celtic
>England is Viking
>England is French
ENGLAND is ENGLAND
SIMPLE
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AS