JACK Straw has joined Tony Banks in the the bandwagon of two calling for a united Great Britain national football team which begs the question: What do politicians know about football?

Their reasoning is that we would have more chance winning the World Cup if we all joined together.

Do they know that there isn't a kid in the country who has dreamed about scoring the winning goal for Great Britain or that the Tartan Army would hardly relish travelling down to London to watch 10 Englishmen and Ryan Giggs.

Can't they see that the Scottish fans would turn on the English players, and vice-versa, when things go wrong on the pitch? And don't they know that when people are asked where they come from on holiday the answer is England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales and never Great Britain?

They don't know and they don't care because anyone who thinks that winning at such costs must be completely ignorant about football and what it means.