Is the opposition to a Team GB just confined to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Welsh Football fans?
No! England fans (the Football Supporters Federation) also voted against participating as Team GB at the Olympics and are opposed to any of the parties putting forward any team under the guise of Team GB. Britain previously had an Olympic Football Team, which I believe ran up till 1979 what is the difference between then and now? Why not opposition to such an idea when it was in action? Britain last qualified for the Olympics in 1960, and the last failed qualifying campaign was for the 1972 Olympics. At this time, Olympic football was an amateur competition for UEFA based teams but professionals were allowed to play for countries from other federations. The Olympic Football competition was fully opened to professionals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics to attract more interest in the competition, however a compromise was agreed with FIFA to make it an U23 competition so as not to rival the world cup. GB stopped competing after 1972 when the English FA abolished the distinction between A
