GB soccer team

[flipnflap]

Is this the best XI that Britain can provide? I've not heard of half the team. Someone please explain.

[factor-fiction]

Most have to be below a certain age (circa 22 I recall) so they won't geneerally be household names

[HowardKennitby]

under 23 with 3 overage players allowed. Giggs, Bellamy and Micah Richards in GB.

[Madmonks]

"GB" Soccer Team..............."England / Wales" Football Team, you mean! Glad there are no Scots or Northern Irish players involved in this embarrassment.

[furrypusscat]

Not exactly interesting viewing is it?

[Arksided]

Wow... they're not good enough even for this embarrassment.

[sir.prize]

Well they ARE Psycho XI

[Madmonks]

They're good enough but not stupid, they kept their heads down and didn't show off when Stuart Pierce was picking his squad!

[Madmonks]

Player of the match in the women's game was Ifeoma Dieke, Scottish, need I say more? If only Stuart Pierce had picked some Scots.....

[bibblebub]

The only embarrassment is Garth Crooks, I thought the aspect ratio on my telly must have gone wrong when they showed a close-up of him.

[sir.prize]

Stuart Pearce says the GB Team was not fully fit.

What? Not fully fit? Why not?

He says ''We were not ready. And next week when the competition starts we will be closer but still not fully ready''.

What a stupid excuse after being well beaten by Brazil.

[flipnflap]

if a nation's soccer team needs a confidence-building practice match, why play Brazil? On the strength of this, jolly glad I don't have tickets to the soccer. And David Beckham may now think Pierce has done him a favour.

[Duncer]

sir.prize, Stuart Pearce is saying they weren't ready? It's so unfair on poor old Psycho, after all, who should have had them ready? I onyl saw the first half but Brazil looked light years ahead.

[mightyWBA]

It was Brazil we were playing.

Moan moan moan moan moan

[mightyWBA]

and it's not "soccer" it's football

[ELVIS68]

This is not football, it's a showpiece and Pearce should not be in charge of it.

Beckham should've been player manager, it would've sold more tickets, got more people watching and probably took the negativity away from the whole shebang

[Duncer]

...............and they might have been ready????

MightyWBA, I appreciate it is Brazil, and they can play a little bit, but to come out and say Team UK weren't ready is tantamount to ridiculous.

And enough of this team GB nonsense!!!!

[mightyWBA]

I agree with the "Team GB" nonsense Duncer,it's annoying me intensely!

To say the players weren't fit is a bit of a nonsense but I think our team is just very ordinary and miles away from beating the likes of Brazil.
Good job no Scots were picked,it might have been 4-0.