football

The House of Commons has debated the possible creation of a GB Olympic football side and the threat that it poses to the national teams.

Alyn Smith MEP has teamed up with MSP Stuart McMillan to launch a global survey of 204 national football association members of FIFA to canvass international opinion on the desirability of Team GB and the inclusion of football in the Olympics.

SNP Culture, Media and Sport Spokesperson, Pete Wishart MP has expressed disbelief at the Prime Minister’s continued insistence that the creation of a Team GB would not endanger football in the home nations.

Plaid Cymru MEP Jill Evans and group colleague SNP MEP Alyn Smith have thrown their weight behind the prospect of a joint Scottish and Welsh bid to host football's European Championships in 2016.

Alyn Smith MEP for Scotland has agreed that his Irish counterpart, Fine Fail MEP Eoin Ryan, will come to Scotland at Mr Smith's invitation to see first hand efforts underway to combat sectarianism in football.

Commenting on the Glenrothes Labour candidate's call for Scotland international games at Hampden to be shown on free to-air-TV Ochil SNP MSP Keith Brown said Mr Roy was a bit late on the pitch.

Commenting on Gordon Brown's remarks in Beijing where he restated his call for a single UK football team at the Olympics the SNP's Westminster Culture, Media and Sport spokesperson, Pete Wishart MP said it was a spectacular own goal for Brown.

SNP MSP Stuart McMillan today called for new efforts to go into securing Scotland’s international games for free-to-view television after Sky secured the rights to broadcast Scotland’s home internationals in full.

John Mason, the SNP candidate in the Glasgow East by-election, has welcomed the report by the BBC Audience Council for Scotland which has called for Scotland`s qualifying matches for international football tournaments to be shown live on terrestrial TV.