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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 234467"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DonBilly @ Dec 18 2008, 07:17 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=367631" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>This has got nothing to do with the issue at all. This is not about England being snubbed. Period.</p><p></p><p>If anything, the positions taken by the Scottish and Welsh FAs actually <em>belittle</em> their respective national causes by <em>trivilialising</em> the argument down into a matter of bickering over whether to commit players towards Team GB. By acting in this childish manner, they've effectively made the issue a laughing stock in amongst the Olympic establishment. For goodness sake even Serbia & Montenegro managed to put out an Olympic team before their nation split up.</p><p></p><p>Let us not forget that other sports don't seem to have this trouble. At all. On the contary, they have made great strides in advancing both the British sporting mission and their own national cause. Chris Hoy and cycling in both Britain as a whole and Scotland is a prime example. You've never seen Chris Hoy whinge or moan about being given the opportunity to compete with the best and trust me, both the more immature elements of Scottish Nationalism and British Unionism have tried, <em>have tried so very hard</em> to take anything that he has said since coming back from his triple Gold triumph at Beijing out of context.</p><p></p><p>I think it is time that we do regional sport in the UK a great favour and urge the FA's of the UK to grow up and take a leaf out of the book of practically <em>every other damn sport out there</em> that has some kind of representation in England, Scotland and Wales...</p><p></p><p>...then again, we could take a leaf out of DonBilly's book and do it the <em>French way</em>...</p><p></p><p><div align='center'><img src="http://www.filibustercartoons.com/comics/20060415.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></div></p><p></p><p><div align='left'>Anyone up for torching some cars, <em>Clichy-sous-bois style</em>, if the EFA, SFA and WFA don't play nice?<em></em></p><p><em></em></div></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 234467"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DonBilly @ Dec 18 2008, 07:17 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=367631']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> This has got nothing to do with the issue at all. This is not about England being snubbed. Period. If anything, the positions taken by the Scottish and Welsh FAs actually [i]belittle[/i] their respective national causes by [i]trivilialising[/i] the argument down into a matter of bickering over whether to commit players towards Team GB. By acting in this childish manner, they've effectively made the issue a laughing stock in amongst the Olympic establishment. For goodness sake even Serbia & Montenegro managed to put out an Olympic team before their nation split up. Let us not forget that other sports don't seem to have this trouble. At all. On the contary, they have made great strides in advancing both the British sporting mission and their own national cause. Chris Hoy and cycling in both Britain as a whole and Scotland is a prime example. You've never seen Chris Hoy whinge or moan about being given the opportunity to compete with the best and trust me, both the more immature elements of Scottish Nationalism and British Unionism have tried, [i]have tried so very hard[/i] to take anything that he has said since coming back from his triple Gold triumph at Beijing out of context. I think it is time that we do regional sport in the UK a great favour and urge the FA's of the UK to grow up and take a leaf out of the book of practically [i]every other damn sport out there[/i] that has some kind of representation in England, Scotland and Wales... ...then again, we could take a leaf out of DonBilly's book and do it the [i]French way[/i]... <div align='center'>[img]http://www.filibustercartoons.com/comics/20060415.gif[/img]</div> <div align='left'>Anyone up for torching some cars, [i]Clichy-sous-bois style[/i], if the EFA, SFA and WFA don't play nice?[i] [/i]</div> [/QUOTE]
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