GB to field Olympic team

Great Britain will field a football team at the 2012 Olympics, and Sir Alex Ferguson is being lined up to manage it. Lord Moynihan, chairman of the British Olympic Association, has pledged to overcome the complex politics that have prevented such a move in the past, reports Jeff Powell in the Mail. "The Scots have led the Welsh and Irish in refusing to co-operate, fearful that the four UK bodies will be stripped of their individual voting power by FIFA and consequently reduced to entering one combined GB team in World Cups," he writes. Lord Coe has backed the plan and both he and Moynihan have approached Ferguson to ask him to consider managing the side.