Stuart Pearce to lead GB Olympic football team

[Nathan Explosion]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/15382675.stm

[CarraLegend]

So after failing horrendously with England he's now got a fat new contract and is put in charge of the Olympic team. Nice work if you can get it!

[Buzz]

Powell should be in charge of both teams.

[johngibo YPC]

Powell should be in charge of both teams.

 

Thought she was crap in the womens world cup to be honest. Keeping players on who couldnt run anymore in central midfield

[Leo No.8]

Rigid 4-4-2, workhorses throughout the side so we can 'get stuck in'. If in doubt kick it out, big man and a little man up top. God Bless the Queen, Stuart Pearce the football innovator.

[Buzz]

Thought she was crap in the womens world cup to be honest. Keeping players on who couldnt run anymore in central midfield

I too was dissapointed with the womens world cup to be truthful, but, I think on the whole she has done a very good job and England expects to be crap at world cups anyways.

Edited October 20, 2011 by Buzz

[Tosh]

OK, I'll start (I assume this is current internationals and not restricted to U21).

 

Non-English players to actually PLAY:

Gareth Bale

Aaron Ramsey

Charlie Adam

darren Fletcher

Jonny Evans

 

 

any more that Pearce will pick n play?

[Snakebite]

Olympics are U23 with a couple of overage players aren't they?

[stressederic]

Well that's one medal we won't be winning.

[Cam]

Just when he needs the rest you can best yo' ass that Andy Carroll gets the call up. Henderson too.

 

Wouldn't put it past the LMA mafia to cook up a Gerrard calling too.

[Epic Swindle]

Olympics are U23 with a couple of overage players aren't they?

 

That's what I thought, so Carroll, Hendo and Kelly then. Beckham is a shoe in.

[D.Boon]

Just when he needs the rest you can best yo' ass that Andy Carroll gets the call up. Henderson too.

 

Wouldn't put it past the LMA mafia to cook up a Gerrard calling too.

 

Carrol will be exhausted by the end of this season at ths rate.

[Maldini]

'IT 'IM!

[Earl Hafler]

Pearce should have his own statue in Trafalgar Square. That fist pump after the penalty against Spain ? Nelson at his finest was never that English.

[Benzo-13]

The Euro's will have a say in this.

Picked for one and not the other plus odds on that Beckham is one of the bangers.

[Epic Swindle]

Powell is his assistant. They're now saying that fringe players who don't feature much in the euros can be picked. That should please a few club managers.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

Gayne Pooney could feature.

 

This is gonna be wonderful. WONDERFUL

[Stevie H]

what design shirts are they going to wear? and will skinner and baddiel release 4 lions and a dragon on a shirt?

[libero]

what design shirts are they going to wear? and will skinner and baddiel release 4 lions and a dragon on a shirt?

 

 

Nailed on shirt, but with a union jack instead of the 3 lions. The second shirt will be red with the same badge

[Stevie H]

 

Nailed on shirt, but with a union jack instead of the 3 lions. The second shirt will be red with the same badge

 

reckon? the 'team GB' athletes usually have a red, white and blue affair don't they?

[Rory Fitzgerald]

Rigid 4-4-2, workhorses throughout the side so we can 'get stuck in'. If in doubt kick it out, big man and a little man up top. God Bless the Queen, Stuart Pearce the football innovator.

[Cobs]

Are Uruguay gonna compete in this?

[Hassony]

Are Uruguay gonna compete in this?

 

yes

 

they lost 6-0 to brazil in the final, but both will play

[lfc003]

What i can't understand is if The Olympics finish in mid-August why is the Premier League still scheduled to start the 15th. Surely it makes sense to delay the start of the league till the first weekend in September especially with the Euro's also taking place in June/July.

 

Starting the season in september would also fix the problem of teams dealing with unhappy players due to the transfer window gossip.

[Gambit]

Football shouldn't even be an Olympic sport IMO. It's always been rubbish. And I don't know why the organisers have made this an under 23 competition. Where did this arbitrary age of 23 come from? Why not under 21, or under 18? And why have over-age players at all? It baffles me that Argentina take this crap so seriously, and I can perfectly understand why Barca were so livid that the Argies selected Messi for the last tournament. Players like Messi belong in the World Cup, not a pointless under 23 tournament.