[St Charles Owl]

Yes indeed boyo!

Anyway, how come the four rugby nation's authorities can get GB teams together for the rugby, but the football authorities can't?

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And what's with the Japanese beating New Zealand?

The thing with rugby is there is absolutely no history of international pressure for us to compete as one country away from the Olympics, take the home nations out of world rugby and you cut the number of teams in half that play the game!! in football, there have been enough calls for us to compete as GB or the UK by other countries in the past that the FA will simply not let us potentially move towards that by competing as a single team in any competition at all. Maybe a bit knee jerk, but we simply don't play football anywhere except as England, Scotland and Wales and the Olympics doesn't allow that.