England is now our national football team, is it time to withdraw the Scottish team from international competition?
Posted Sep 19, 2014, 4:42 AM UTC
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Joking aside, that may actually happen : http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/referendum-news/scots-football-status-on-agenda-again-if-theres-a-no-vote-say-fifa-insiders.1409285056
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Calm down. It's disappointing, but this was more likely carried by the older generations. You have a much more politically engaged population who, hopefully, are more clued into issues of poverty and inequality. Take the Westminster parties to task over those issues and if the fail to deliver significant autonomy. Then vote again in 10-15 years.
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Yeah I doubt we will get another vote in 10-15 years. More like 40 or so. 10 years would be seen as a joke.
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Yea, it's probably very soon. It really depends how things advance from here. If they don't, I could see independence being readdressed.
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I don't think it would happen that quick even if that was the case. I expect a few decades before anything serious was ever done about independence.
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Will never happen. Doubt any of Northern Ireland, Wales or Scotland would want it.
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Except we've just had a referendum that has specifically rejected Scotland as a separate nation to England. over 50% of the population of the region of Scotland want to remain a region of England. Regions don't have international football teams
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Big difference between football and voting on if you want your country to leave the UK. Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are countries and have their own National Football team and will continue to have it (See how Scotland reacted to the olympics?). Besides i think if you asked people if they would rather have their own football team or be a team UK Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland would want their own team.
And besides. Who wants to be a part of England and "friends" which is pretty much what a UK team would have. Where there would be an obvious English bias in pickings
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Region of England? You should stay off the cider pal.
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At this point I honestly couldn't care if Scotland ever qualifies for a tournament again.
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Aye, in the same way that Cornwall isn't going to qualify for an international football team
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FIFA allows england and scotland to be two separate members, it's nothing to do with whether Scotland is independent or not.
hand to present yourself as a separate member when over 50% of the supposed country has voted to reject the notion of nationhood. Whats the English anthem again? God save the queen? best get practicing my old mucker.