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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
No, the worry is England, Wales and Scotland all have a vote on the FIFA board or IFAB which decides the laws of the game, that's what might be in jeopardy with an amalgamated team
Not sure I'll bother with this olympics tbh, just seems a bit pointless
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Really where did you get that from? Not sure the FAs of the UK would be that bothered by only having a single vote. Mine was from an actual news report, some time ago.
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They each established their own football associations and national teams before the start of the modern Olympic movement.
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Ongoing concerns that FIFA could eventually force the home nations to field a unified men's team in all competitions prevented Great Britain's participation in Tokyo.
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The FIFA council only has one UK member out of 37, and that is as a representative of UEFA, not UK.
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IFAB was created by the UK FAs and then FIFA joined it.
The International Football Association Board (The IFAB) was founded in 1886 by the four British football associations (The FA, Scottish FA, FA of Wales and Irish FA) as the worldwide body with sole responsibility for developing and preserving the Laws of the Game.
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FIFA joined in 1913, completing the current board of The IFAB and representing nowadays the 207 national associations that exist worldwide.
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