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Why there is an English football team instead of British football team?
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Four home countries...four distinct national identities...four friendly (most of
the time! LOL) rivalries. Only England qualified this time.
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It's true, isn't it, that Ireland (i.e. The Republic and Northern Ireland) plays
as one team?
How about The Isle Of Man and the Channel Islands?
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Think you're right about NI Not certain to be honest...I am NOT a footie fanatic.
I prefer other sports.
IOM and CI are just off shore tax havens.....you have to be rich to go and live there
so they are too busy counting their dosh to bother with footie! LOL Cheers
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Why are there four football teams while there is one British economy?
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There's one british economy but 4 identities : english, welsh, scottish, northern
Irish. Can we conseider Cornouaille as an identity? = United Kingdom
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No doubt about it.....Cornouaille is considered Celtic by native born sons and daughters
of Kernow (Cornish name for Cornwall) although technically it is part of England.
Cross over the border from Devon (England) and you start seeing the Cornish flags
flying all over the place. We Celtic brothers and sisters regard Cornwall as "one
of us"! You also see a change in the place names which "look" Celtic. Some are
really quite funny. There is one well known village called Indian Queens! That
does seem out of place. Another one is called Mousehole, but it is pronounced:
'm^zl
Actually, England in particular is full of strange place names, some are quite comic,
and a lot of them are not pronounced anything like the way they are spelt. eg:
Happisburgh is: 'heizbr^ Wymondham: 'wind^m
There is a website called: "American Expats in the UK" for, naturally, Americans
now living here. They never fail to be amused by odd English place names and they
have a thread on their forum devoted to the topic, and listing hundreds of funny
names of villages and towns up and down England, the history of their origins now
lost in the mists of time. To the Scots, the English have always had a reputation
for being eccentric!
Bless them! :-)
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What the heck my last posting has got to do with English football God only knows!
hey ho! Nic..it's your fault! hee hee!
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I find it a bit strange in fact, the UK is a country, and England, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland are part of that country and England for example couldn't be
see as a country... and there are four international teams! That is very particular,
indeed! That would be the same in France if we had a Brittany team, a Corsican team
etc don't you agree? Anyway that is a good thing, just look at the six nations in
rugby! How boring it would be if Scotland and Wales didn't play in that tournament...
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Axel: I agree. Are you a rugby fan? I am well, almost a fanatic....watching not
playing....if I were to play I would be pulverized in the first scrum.
So you find the UK and its component parts a conundrum? Great! ...you have us summed
up pretty well, Axel! :-)
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England can be seen as a country, Axel, due to the fact that it is, in fact, a country.
The UK is a KINGDOM, made up of four COUNTRIES, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern
Ireland.
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To say that England is a country is a little misleading. The English football team
in Euro 2004 were the only side not representing a nation.
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Actually, the correct form in British English is "England team" as opposed to "English
team".
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ditto God's little acre ie: Scotland :-)
soz..couldn't resist
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Football was invented in Britain, but Britain didn't have anyone to play so England
v Scotland was the first International football game ever.
Then their was the first international tournament, the "Home nations" between England,
Scotland, Wales.
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Rep. Of Ireland are not British but they used to be part of the UK a long time ago.
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