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PM Backs British Football For 2012Source Sky NewsGordon Brown has told Sky News he wants a British football team to compete at the 2012 London Olympics. Britain did not enter a team at the Beijing Games due to a lack of support from the four constituent countries' football associations. But the Prime Minister is keen to see a unified team - Team UK - field on home soil in four years' time. Speaking exclusively to Sky News, he said: "I hope there will be a team by 2012. It will be team UK. I hope we can get an agreement on that. "Britain is the home of football, which we gave to the world, and people will be surprised if there is an Olympic tournament in football and we are not part of it." Mr Brown said he had met with head of FIFA Sepp Blatter, Olympic organisers and FA organisers in Britain in order to broker an agreement. The notion of a British football team has been regularly raised but always suffered from a lack of support within the domestic game. Criticism for the idea centres on the structure of the team. Some fear the team would rely too heavily on English players, while others resent the introduction of a fixed quota of players from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. A unified British team could match up with Olympic champions Argentina in 2012. The South Americans claimed the football gold medal today in Beijing, beating Nigeria 1-0 in the final. So what do you all think, could we get it together to have a UK football team? |