This exhibit at the German Football Museum is the original football (or one of them, I imagine they had hundreds) from the 1972 Olympic Games, the ones which were meant to be known as the ‘cheerful games’ until there was a terrorist attack on the Israeli team which rather deflated matters to say the least. The great country of Poland won those Olympic Games, the only time that they’ve won the football tournament. British players don’t take part due to a panic amongst the FA that it might jeopardise the situation that Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland all play as independent teams in European and World competitions, whereas we’d have to submit a British team for the Olympics. The FA do somewhat panic, they did manage to submit a team for the 2012 Olympics Games when they were in London, I’m sure that they could cobble something together. If not, perhaps we should just enter some random players from the lower leagues, give them a nice kick about.