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Frankie S, on 06 December 2011 - 00:58, said:
You see this is the point at which you and the rational world diverge. People who think like this tend to think that the SFA and Craig Levein should, or perhaps even do, think like this too, but the truth is that they don't. The only reason they're not coming out and saying they don't is because they're humouring you. They realise you spend your hard-earned cash following the national team and don't want to alienate you by calling you "retarded", "a bit simple" or "clueless country bumpkins", but, thankfully, everyone who isn't trying to get you to renew your TA membership is happy to tell you the truth. The Olympic football tournament is an irrelevance, it seems to have ignited a fire in the bellies of a section of the Tartan Army for some reason but no-one else, perhaps David Beckham aside, cares very much. It will proceed quite inconsequentially with or without Jamie Mackie, and even in the highly unlikely event that it proceeds with him he'll still be eligible for selection for Scotland afterwards. The mendacious Sepp Blatter and an unholy Alliance of the Disenfranchised will not suddenly seize on the Olympics as a pretext for stripping the home nations of their independent status and the world will continue to revolve much as before, except for slightly increased levels of high dudgeon in Dingwall, indignation in Inverness and similar local conditions wherever else the Tartan Army gather to take libations and berate the English.
If the SFA were to cave in to your demands that any player playing for the GB team in the Olympics should be banned from representing Scotland afterwards then they'd look retarded and a bit simple. They'd look like clueless country bumpkins on a slightly bigger stage than a football message board. They'd have people pointing and laughing at them in much the same way that people are pointing and laughing at the TAMB, except without the protective veil of anonymity afforded by the internet.
And, of course, emboldened by their success in getting the SFA to bend to their narrow-minded prejudices, where would the newly-empowered TA pressure group stop? Freed from the low-level grind of harassing English-born Scotland under-19 players on Twitter, would they call for lifetime bans for Scottish international players who voted Conservative at the last election? If engagement with a "political stunt" such as the GB Olympic team is enough to bar someone from representing Scotland then, surely, espousing a political allegiance to an avowedly Unionist party is sufficient grounds, under this newly politicised selection process, to bar a few more? Personally, I think we should take the accent away from the political and just bar everyone who likes Coldplay. They're terrible. On second thoughts, if Chris Martin was banging in 20 goals a season for Man City and had a Scottish granny then I'd happily consider him...
If the SFA were to cave in to your demands that any player playing for the GB team in the Olympics should be banned from representing Scotland afterwards then they'd look retarded and a bit simple. They'd look like clueless country bumpkins on a slightly bigger stage than a football message board. They'd have people pointing and laughing at them in much the same way that people are pointing and laughing at the TAMB, except without the protective veil of anonymity afforded by the internet.
And, of course, emboldened by their success in getting the SFA to bend to their narrow-minded prejudices, where would the newly-empowered TA pressure group stop? Freed from the low-level grind of harassing English-born Scotland under-19 players on Twitter, would they call for lifetime bans for Scottish international players who voted Conservative at the last election? If engagement with a "political stunt" such as the GB Olympic team is enough to bar someone from representing Scotland then, surely, espousing a political allegiance to an avowedly Unionist party is sufficient grounds, under this newly politicised selection process, to bar a few more? Personally, I think we should take the accent away from the political and just bar everyone who likes Coldplay. They're terrible. On second thoughts, if Chris Martin was banging in 20 goals a season for Man City and had a Scottish granny then I'd happily consider him...
My goodness I thought it impossible that someone could spout so many words and yet make themselves look so clueless its embarrassing
Perhaps once you avail yourself of the facts of the situation, rather than regurgitating tired auld cliches in a futile attempt at making a point then we can talk turkey, until then amigo.
This post has been edited by non_sequitur: 06 December 2011 - 19:40
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