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    Row could mean All-English GB Olympic team

    Tuesday, March 10, 2009

    A Great Britain football team will take part in the London 2012 Olympics even if it consists entirely of English players, sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe insisted on Tuesday. The issue has become a political and sporting battleground, with the Scottish, Welsh and Irish football associations opposing a joint squad in case it affects the future of their independent national sides. Sutcliffe told MPs he wanted a team which had the ''widest representation'' from the UK, but it could be that only t ...

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