M BrookstealthpapesStuka GB is simply the geographical island which England, Scotland, and Wales form part of. It annoyed me (well not really) that the Olympic team is called Team GB when there's no such legal entity as Great Britain any more since Ireland joined the Union, and part of it remains so. Great Britain used to be a specific country but not any more.
Anyway back on topic- if Gibraltar football team plays Andorra would the game be in Barcelona and thus Spain? Andorra seem to play some of their games there at Espanyol's ground. The Catalonians wouldn't mind of course, judging by the Gib FA's facebook page they are getting a lot of congratulatory messages from up there.
- Team GB came from the squad that went to the 1996, with some help by a marketing person on the trip, I think it was the drier GB&NI before then and the official name is still the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team. I think.
- It was only a single country for around one hundred years - 1707 when Scotland went bankrupt over Panama to 180something when Ireland joined. But that's not really important.
- I think Spain don't want to recognise Gibraltar as there'd be better arguments for separate Basque, Catalan and Gallegan teams so they may play somewhere else in that case.
- the support from Catalans follows.I ask because Spain has 2 parcels of land in Morroco that Morroco wants back,
more than two
there's a few small military bases including my favourite one:
the little footbridge is the border, I think.
As well as Ceuta and Melilla, both of which are inhabited and the peninsula pictured above - Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera - there are at least half a dozen uninhabited islands off the Moroccan coast that 'belong' to Spain.
Yeah, that got said already.
