If you head on over to the LFCTV site you’ll be able to find details of a competition that Adidas are doing. You can go straight through to the competition here, but if you follow the first link I’ve just thrown up you’ll find yourself at the Liverpool home-page, and who wouldn’t want to do that?!
The competition wants you to come up with a name for the football that’s going to feature in the Olympics. The sad thing is that if the name is already gone it forces you to put another one up. It’s not about mass suggestions, this one, more originality. “Union, unity, together” are all gone. Anything remotely UK or England related is a hard sell, so get your thinking caps on folks! What would Adidas want to call their newest high-tech bladder? (Let’s hope this one actually works instead of ballooning over the crossbar every bleedin’ shot!).
The most interesting thing to come out of this is that we’ve managed to by-pass whatever complicated rule was keeping us from playing under the Union flag. This is the first year since some time in the 60s that we’ve been able to enter a footy team into the olympic games – we started our football team as England, and our olympians are all Great British. There was something to do with a confusion in the boundaries and borderlines of the countries, and that’s all been sorted out just in time.
The wiki page has all the info if you’re interested.
The most interesting thing is that the team fielded has to be made up of under 23year olds. That means we’re going to see a super-combination of the young footballing talent across the nation.
Exciting times!!
