Is England a national team??

[Hendrik]

That's some complicated stuff, man.

 

[AberdeenFC]

our parliament is just a diddy way of thinkin we are our own country. i wish we were england sucks ba'z :fool:

 

[ottawaguy]

I dont see whats so hard to understand.

England, Scotland and Wales are all seperate countries, so why shouldn't they have seperate football teams.

Is a tiny bit like saying, why have france spain portugal etc when you could just have Europe.

TheUk competes together in the Olympics as where but Frace and Portugal don't. You douche.

 

[adj137]

look the UK is a collection of 'nations' as such... Wales,Scotland and N.Ireland long ago used to be independant areas.
Nowadays all the 'nations' have their own independence parties, plaid cymru and the SNP whatnot. They're all accountable to the govt. in London in terms of politics but FFS why would the Scottish want to be on the same football team as the English.

The whole point of it being the UK in the Olympics is because the IOC don't recognise the concept that Scotland etc have their own national pride, people in england would never consider supporting a scottish player as part of 'Team U.K'

 

[rhizome17]

They do in Rugby...

 

[Daz]

only on special tours, in the rugby world cup and six nations are england, wales, scotland and ireland.

 

[rhizome17]

No kidding... the point is, they still do it.

 

[thetrooper37]

umm... Republic of Ireland isn't a part Britain, no?

 

[Kibe Kru]

Republic of Ireland isn't part of either Great Britain or United Kingdom...
GB is Wales, Scotland and England
UK is GB + Northern Ireland

 

[ericstarkid]

was the Republic of Ireland part of UK once in history?
if yes, how did it depart from the UK?

 

[rhizome17]

oh my ******* god...

 

[Bobby]

By treaty i think, but yea....they were apart, that's why NI is still there.

Many Corwall residents also think of Cornwall as a home nation, there are movements to reflect this.

 

[Rob]

Corwall sucks, and you suck.

 

[yim87]

was the Republic of Ireland part of UK once in history?
if yes, how did it depart from the UK?

http://www.answers.com/topic/history-of-ireland

 

[TheBlueBalla]

TheUk competes together in the Olympics as where but Frace and Portugal don't. You douche.

Being that he is a resident of the United Kingdom im willing to bet he is much more knowledgeable about the collective and individual cultural identities of the peoples of Britain and the UK whereas (was that the word you were looking for?) you, as I am, are just an outsider with no real understanding of the situation and feelings of those people involved. On top of that your atrocious grammer/spelling gives you no credibility at all

You douche. LOLZ BBQ (do I even need the eyes rolling here?)



For some of the more obvious questions people have on here about political history and the like, i suggest www.wikipedia.org. Of course, its not great for everything, but it will do just fine for many of these point of clarification that will be/should have been cleared up by the average Middle School Social Studies text book. Im not trying to be an asshole, im just trying to help

By treaty i think, but yea....they were apart, that's why NI is still there.

The treaty you speak of was that which, I believe, established Ireland's independence as a free state in 1921. For more info on this, see the movie Michael Collins (or if your not lazy, read a book) but as I recall, the issue of ceeding the 6 counties which made up most of historic ulster to Britain (Mayo, Armagh, Derry, Antrim, Tyronne, and Monahaghn and yes, I had to look the names up) divided the Irish patriots, like Collins and DeValera and sparked a civil war. It was an issue of conceeding the north to Britain, or potentially having no independence at all.

'Least, thats what I heard