Great Britain team in 2020?

Lol: that tag-line cracked me up!!!

 

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just what we need; another thread for our half dozen regulars that check the message boards daily!

if they go by last WC, the top two automatically qualified(Germany & France), then they had a round robin, wild card tourney featuring Norway, Sweden, Ned & the Swiss. of which the Swedes won(England wasn't allowed to participate in the Olympics despite placing the highest of the Euro teams in that WC)

in my opinion, Neville ain't no Sampson(who at least understood how woso worked best; high pressure, high back line). Plus some of his selections; a clumsy. slow poke CB like Miller Bright/Fran Kirby who might be fine as a striker, but so far, sucks at AM

 

They do exactly as in the previous tournaments, the top 3 eligible UEFA side at the World Cup automatically qualify for the Olympics. UEFA don't bother with a special Olympics qualification tournament as the teams are playing the Euro 2021 qualifiers straight after the WC.

 

What do you mean, he does not sleep with his player? allegedly

 

they did the last time though
https://us.women.soccerway.com/inte...-rio-de-janeiro/play-offs-group-stage/r34618/

and I thought was a good thing cuz Sweden, a team that didn't do good at the WC(eliminated by Germany, 4-0, in the round of 16) ended up winning the silver medal one year later

 

I think what shlj meant was that UEFA doesn't bother with a separate Olympic qualifying tournament normally - i.e. their calendar is normally full already. They only did it last time because a tiebreak was needed. That is, it wasn't "Top two, then we have a OQT"; it was "Top three, but we don't actually know who #3 is so we need a one-off OQT". And I assume that shlj mentioning '21 EURO qualifiers means that UEFA now has a tiebreak procedure mapped out to prevent any future separate OQTs.

 

Several team UEFA team was eliminated at the same stage, this tend to happen when less than three of the competeing UEFA teams make the semis, then it is a playoff in some format between those teams.
After WWC in China there was a playoff between Denmark and Sweden for UEFA's last Olympic spot.
So UEFA do not have a separate Olympic qualifying tournament but they may need a tie-breaker match or tournament.

 

Tokyo Olympics: Scottish FA will not block Team GB

 

I remember watching that game live: a crystal clear victory if there ever was one and there was not much to complain about from Sampson in the first place, let alone menacing a referee with a metal pole...

I agree that we don't need such people in women's football, and it doesn't matter if England looked quite brilliant under Sampson's tenure: you just don't make such deals with the devil, in a sport that so far is significantly better than it's men's counterpart for what concerns behaviours on the pitch and out of it.

 

Since the Coupe du Monde Feminine is about to take place, how about we start using Royaume Uni? Oh, maybe not, since that would include Australia and Canada, among others. Interesting that Canada beat Great Britain last time around.

 

It gets complicated. ( I thought Canada’s last month win was against England.)

Canada and Australia aren’t part of the Royaume uní. Just the four nations. The queen is the head of state in those and others, and they are both commonwealth countries. The royal families of Canada and Australia are considered separate from the Royal family in the UK, even though they are always the same persons. Their parliaments have to approve each new monarch. Some think that her title in Scotland should be queen of the Scots and her regal name should be Élisabeth I., or I and II. It worked with James.

She is Not the head of the church in Canada, at least. It is a secular nation. Her title there since 1953 does include “Defender of the Faith” but Henry VIII earned that for the Royals from Pope Leo X while Catholic for writing an anti Protestant tome ( in Latin, no less) which argued for the supremacy of the Pope, so the Faith defended has never been completely clear. Canadians figured that since the issue was so foggy, it just acknowledged a Supreme Being.
All the other countries except Granada dropped that part of the title. Most dropped mention of the U.K. in her titles.. For obvious reasons, Pakistan never used the Defender tag. Some lineages include descent from Mohammed, so maybe she is a calipha.

The Channel Islands aren’t even part of the UK, but are Crown dependencies along with Mann. On Jersey, at least, HRM Elizabeth is titled the Duke of Jersey. There is no Brexit issue in the Channel Islands. They already have arrangements with the EU even though they aren’t part of it. Maybe the Queen should just make the U.K. a dependency of Jersey and be done with it.

And the Isle of Wight, isn’t a Channel Island, even though it is a Channel island, being in the Channel. Maybe I’lles de Manche works better.

And the Republic of Ireland is in the British Isles. Don’t tell them, though. They insist on “these islands” like that makes it clearer.

 

Team GB was not the best players available at the time. Fishlock did not make it for example.