Quotehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_B..._football_team
It turns out that a Great Britain and NI team, controlled by the FA, competed in the Olympics up until 1972, although the last Olympics for which they qualified were the games in Rome in 1960.
It wouldn't be the first time players from Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland represented GB in the olympics
Get the feeling the SFA, FAW and IFA only are now because of money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_B..._football_team
It turns out that a Great Britain and NI team, controlled by the FA, competed in the Olympics up until 1972, although the last Olympics for which they qualified were the games in Rome in 1960.
Yeah, Ireland played GB in the qualifiers for 1960
3 from NI were in the 1960 squad
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...2/14039606.stm
The 1960 team had 12 englishmen, 6 scots and 3 northern irish.
The BBC at its best 'The Italian team England faced in 1960 included current Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni'.
We also played them in Dublin and Watford in the 68 qualifiers. 0-2 & 0-6 unfortunately.Originally Posted by Dodge
yeah, but I mentioned 1960 as that was the last time GB qualified
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