Olympics GB Football

[Buzzo]

Well its my brother-in-laws's ticket, so if it's sold it will be by him, but it's been offered to me if I want it. Accepting it and then selling it to have someone else sat with him and two other member of my extended family would probably be a bit of a no-no.

You could always take the ticket and sell it to someone so long as they promise to dress up as you and pretend to be you to avoid arousing any suspicion from your family members?

I know what you mean with not wanting to go though. I'd be torn, could be good, could be bad, and most likely it sill be better sat at home with a bowl of cheesy wotsits watching it on TV

[Kenneth]

You could always take the ticket and sell it to someone so long as they promise to dress up as you and pretend to be you to avoid arousing any suspicion from your family members?

I know what you mean with not wanting to go though. I'd be torn, could be good, could be bad, and most likely it sill be better sat at home with a bowl of cheesy wotsits watching it on TV

I bet cheesy wotsits are £5 a packet at the stadium.

[Buzzo]

I bet cheesy wotsits are £5 a packet at the stadium.

Yep - robbing *******s.
I am jsut assuming Cheesy Wotsits are an official sponsor of the GB Olympic Games team this year? Them and Mr Porky's Pork Scratchings.

[Gingawaria]

I bet cheesy wotsits are £5 a packet at the stadium.

If the price of a burger meal deal at Wembley is anything to go by, you're not far wrong!

£10 for Burger, Chips and a drink...****ing daylight robbery!

[Chazza]

London 2012: No Scotland or N Ireland in Olympic football squad

There will be no Scottish or Northern Irish players in the men's British Olympic football squad when it is announced on Monday.

BBC Scotland has learned that manager Stuart Pearce will list 18 players from England and Wales.

Fifteen of the squad must be under 23, with Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy and Micah Richards the three permitted overage players.

None of the England players at Euro 2012 were considered.

Four reserve players will also be put on stand-by, should anyone withdraw from the squad.

There were Scots, including Steven Fletcher and Barry Bannan, on Pearce's shortlist of 35 players.

The Scottish Football Association, along with their Northern Irish and Welsh counterparts, have taken no direct involvement with Team GB and have made it clear they do not want their players involved for fear of risking their countries' separate identities in world football.

But they cannot block players from participating.

Team GB were drawn in Group A at London 2012 alongside Senegal, Uruguay and United Arab Emirates.

They begin their Olympic campaign against Senegal at Old Trafford on 26 July before facing the United Arab Emirates at Wembley on 29 July, and Uruguay at the Millennium Stadium on 1 August.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/18653453

[DannyMan2006]

As Stuart Pearce is the boss, I guess he has to give a ****. And if he does, I fail to see how Becks made the 35 man shortlist.

[Frenchie]

does anyone care about this?

[little dave hedgehog]

nope.

[Buzzo]

nope.

[ChesterDave]

does anyone care about this?

nope.

nope.

Doesn't seem so, but if you are interested it is less than 50 days to the start of the league season

Also, England are favourities with te bookies to win their group. lulz.

[BobTheCharmer]

Olympic football is a hardly the most serious of footballing competitions. We'll be **** whatever team we put out. But to omit the guy that actually wants to give his all is daft. Can Beckham still hit a good free-kick and can he still put a good cross in? Of course he can. Why deny him the chance of a final swansong in his home city? Especially after the time and effort he's put in supporting the whole Olympic bid. A Cunts trick by Pearce. In my opinion we should have only chosen non premier league players.

[Phoenix07]

Brian Reade

No wonder David Beckham is absolutely devastated.

He’d probably spent months working out the new hairstyle for all those photos of him on a goalscorer’s back, Victoria’s latest clothes designs were no doubt ready to be exhibited and the best Wembley box booked for Tom Cruise.

Stuart Pearce has a lot to answer for. Not least why he’s disrespecting the Olympian ideal of letting someone’s commercial brand grow Faster, Higher, Stronger.

Forget the fact that, having spent the last five years selling shirts in California, Beckham is more suited to playing beach volleyball than competitive football, the national perception is that Pearce has committed treason. Oh, dear.

The truth is, that by leaving out the 37-year-old on footballing grounds, Psycho has made the best assist of his career. And as we embark on another inquest into another England failure, his timing is perfect.

Because Beckham epitomises all that’s been wrong with our national team this past dozen years. Whereas, in 2000, German football carried out a radical overhaul of its structure aimed at producing a technically-sound national squad based on a team ethic, we wallowed in the cult of the individual.

We swallowed the myth of a Golden Generation built around a few perceived superstars. Cringe back at those metatarsal sagas, the prayer mats, the Beckingham Palace VIP send-off parties and the notion that if the best player wasn’t fit to play, England weren’t fit for purpose.

We’re still doing it. Many people believe England aren’t in tomorrow’s Euros final because an unfit Wayne Rooney couldn’t turn the toil of ten donkeys into gold-dust. But don’t worry because Harry Redknapp reckons Jack Wilshere can be our Pirlo at the next World Cup.

England are a million miles away from being winners because they’ve over-indulged individuals when they should have been moulding a team. The hysterical reaction to a semi-retired has-been being excluded on footballing grounds from the national Olympic team, shows how low our self-esteem has fallen.

Which other country would bemoan a coach ditching sentiment and attempting to go for gold?

Instead of lamenting Beckham’s absence why aren’t we praising Pearce for giving Micah Richards a chance to show us why he should be in Brazil?

Why aren’t we pleased that he is taking this competition seriously, just as every other nation involved in it is? Why aren’t we excited that a team of youngsters may actually shine in a tournament for once, and point the way to the future?

And how many last hurrahs does Beckham deserve? This is the man Fabio Capello was forced to play so the FA could over-hype the games that led him to 115 caps.

As for paying back the great patriot who helped London win the Olympics. So did Princess Anne. Shall we get her saddled up again?

Ah, but he’ll sell tickets, they say. Since when has selling tickets been an Olympian ethic?

Had Beckham been given a free pass to further boost his global profile, what a kick in the teeth that would have been for our true Olympians. Imagine his face over all the front pages after an England victory while some unknown swimmer who’d been up at dawn for a decade had clawed her way on to the medals podium only to have her magnificent achievement ignored.

Thank God Stuart Pearce had the guts to make a proper sporting decision. He deserves a gold medal already, for showing a deluded nation the light.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/brian-reade-column-on-samir-nasri-945808

[Neil Young]

Why should there be different criteria for Beckham?

The media furore is ridiculous. It's a mini-Diana - an overreaction based on celebrity culture and fuelled by a desperate media. I realise people are sincere but it seems to me that grips need to be got.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Olympic football is a hardly the most serious of footballing competitions. We'll be **** whatever team we put out. But to omit the guy that actually wants to give his all is daft. Can Beckham still hit a good free-kick and can he still put a good cross in? Of course he can. Why deny him the chance of a final swansong in his home city? Especially after the time and effort he's put in supporting the whole Olympic bid. A Cunts trick by Pearce. In my opinion we should have only chosen non premier league players.

I agree with most of this

[Tee]

Olympic football is a hardly the most serious of footballing competitions. We'll be **** whatever team we put out. But to omit the guy that actually wants to give his all is daft. Can Beckham still hit a good free-kick and can he still put a good cross in? Of course he can. Why deny him the chance of a final swansong in his home city? Especially after the time and effort he's put in supporting the whole Olympic bid. A Cunts trick by Pearce. In my opinion we should have only chosen non premier league players.

Absolutely.