FIFA have ruled that it does not matter how well England's women footballers do at the World Cup in China, which opens this week, they will not be allowed to compete in the 2008 Olympics.

CRAIG GORDON (pictured) today became the first top Scottish player to support the concept of a united British football team for the 2012 Olympics.

A SENIOR figure has warned the Football Association that a bid for the 2018 World Cup should not be at the expense of producing the next generation of young English players.

DAVID CAMERON (pictured), the leader of the Conservative Party, today said a tournament between the four football teams from the Home Countries should be held to decide who represents Britain at the 2012 London Olympics.

THE Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) are opposing stringent new drug-testing rules that are similar to those imposed on Britain's Olympic athletes.

THE new chief executive of the Scottish Football Association (SFA) has said that he is in support of a united British team at the 2012 Olympics but he will not try to change his employers opposition to the idea.

A GROUP of Scotland-linked MPs have backed the idea of a united British football team competing at the 2012 London Olympics.

THE Scottish Government have claimed that FIFA should investigate claims from a Westminster Minister that they would back a united British football team for London 2012, a move that could jeopardise the participation of the four Home Countries in the 2010 World Cup.