SFA Strengthens Protest Of GB Football
In the ongoing debate around creating a GB football team for London 2012, Scottish FA chief executive Gordon Smith has reiterated his opposition, saying that the Olympics is not the primary event for the sport.
Due to the concern that most of the Olympic football team would be made up of English players, the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Football Associations are all adamantly against the idea.
Over the past months, the SFA has led the protest to creating a British football team for 2012, however, Smith has now taken the conflict to the next level by stating the sport should not be in the Olympics at all.
Reportedly claiming that the Olympics should be the highest form of competition for sport, Smith has pointed out that this is not the case for football, which many would argue pinnacles at the World Cup.
Although football has been included in every modern Olympics (except for the first one in 1896 and in1932), the UK stopped entering a team in 1972.
The British Olympic Association and the Football Association are now involved in a major push to get a GB football team into the 2012 Olympics.
Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, is in favour of a football Team GB, but Michel Platini, president of UEFA has reportedly said he supports the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Associations.
