GB United is: we are going to have a football team in the 2012 Olympic Games, despite the Scots

Great Britain will field a football team in the 2012 Olympics in London - no matter how complex the politics or stubborn opposition from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Lord Moynihan, chairman of British Olympic association, gave categorical promise that yesterday, along with its powerful backing of Games chief Lord Coe's proposal that Sir Alex Ferguson must manage the team.

The vital importance of football for the Olympic Games in London was enunciated by Colin Moynihan when he said: "The impact of a British team on the public highway and its support for the Games will be enormous.

'We also expect the team to be a strong medal contender and thus generate enormous enthusiasm all over the country. We have a team in these Games and we will have a team '.

The Scots and Welsh has led the Irish in refusing to cooperate, fearing that the four bodies UK will be stripped of its voting power of the individual Fife and therefore declined to enter a combined team in GB World Cups.

Now the clear implication of Moynihan is that, if the other house Football Association to prevent its participants, 11 Englishmen represent Great Britain theLondon Games in 2012. Given the challenge in Glasgow - as well as Cardiff and Belfast - there is a strong likelihood that a lone Scot would be for the team selection of Anglos.

Ferguson was asked informally by Seb Coe if he would consider the post of manager and Moynihan has followed up with an approach of its own. Moynihan said: 'We want the most highly qualified man for the job so that, obviously, I would support Fergie, as well as taking into account, of course, any manager of the English FA would submit that had comparable credentials '.

Given that England continue to look abroad for its director - first Sven Goran Eriksson, Fabio Capello now - that is not likely to be the longest queues.

Then, with an indication of Sir Alex will be receptive when they finally steps down at Manchester United - four years from now will be 70 - the timing seems perfect.

This raises the prospect of maliciously Ferguson, so often accused of withholding their star squads from England, Wayne Rooney demanding the release of Old Trafford to play for Great Britain as one of its three players allowed more than 23 years of age in London 2012 .

Nor would it be easy for his fellow countrymen in pursuit of Sir Alex deny access to a prodigy in Scotland, where they arise in the next two or three years.

Any team GB - now or four years hence, - se basa en una preponderance of English footballers, but the progress made by at least one Scottish girl makes Moynihan especially Miff that, like men, not women British football will compete in Beijing next month.

He is determined to enter teams of both sexes in London, said: 'The England ladies are strong at the moment and, given the strange coming through Scot, I am sure we would have been strong medal contenders in Beijing. We will have two teams come 2012. "

It is the team of men who have the history and the power to capture the imagination of the nation four years.

Great Britain won the soccer gold in Paris 1900, London 1908 and Stockholm 1912. The latter came into the Olympics in 1972, then-adhering to the principle of a team of amateurs, even though almost every other nation responded to the rule change to allow young professionals. As a result, they were called out by Bulgaria in the qualifying rounds and have not taken part since then.

President of FIFA, Sepp Blatter maintains that the fear of Scots, Welsh and Irish lose their identity if they unite under the banner British Olympic unfounded, at least while he remains in office. Now he is urging the Board to gather a team of English for 2012, if that is the only solution.

Moynihan will happen if the route should, albeit reluctantly.

Meanwhile, is becoming the other FAs home all powers of persuasion practising in the High Court to defeat the attempt to deceive the drug sprinter Dwain Chambers to revoke his Olympic life ban. Strengthened by that verdict, Moynihan is urging other countries and the IOC to approve the BOA controversy by law.

Speaking at a journalists' association Sports lunch in the shadow of the Courts Act, also continued their campaign for wider use of blood tests rather than taking samples of urine to catch drug addicts.

He said: 'We still have a long way to go, but I want to see competition between athletes, not between chemical laboratories'.

Beijing fears may be affected by drug scandals. Barclays Premier League players will soon be obliged to notify the authorities of their whereabouts daily if they are chosen for random drug tests - as well as Olympic athletes.(dailymail)