Why is it Team GB?

Why is everyone saying Team GB all the time? We're not Team Argyle, Brazil are not Team Brazil, USA are just USA or The USA, so why do the media keep calling GB Team GB?

All sounds a bit poncey and something Beckham would say, "I'm frilled to be an ambassador for Team GB"

Agreed. Team England and Wales is far more accurate.

But it's Team GB in the basketball, probably the beach volleyball and hockey as well.

Moan, moan, feckin moan! No wonder you are not wanted on the farm!

feck off you mongrel, anyway it's Team Pasoti to you

I understand why you're irritated Jock.
It's a corporate speak thing originally .... an attempt to get away from the perceived, slightly tacky, ox bow, laid back community endeavour, and try to infer zappy in control efficient teamwork..... just like the sponsors. It's developed into a bit of an unsaid old fashioned class thing that has always been there in sport.
All privately sponsored teams in 'sports' such as yauchteedom or horseydom have been team this or that for a long time. It's an attempt to distance from the football thing and infer something quite quite different.
A bit like being a band in the 70s rather than a group.

The highly amusing film Team America shows exactly what the language is all about as it satirises and puts down the enemy.
It's all linguistics.... the technique of saying something without technically saying anything supposedly. A raised eyebrow helps, but is not essential.

Technically it isn't Team GB anyway. Where does NI fit into the title?

I've not seen so many giant African's since I saw us play Stoke!

Mock Cuncher wrote:

I've not seen so many giant African's since I saw us play Stoke!

All under 23 as well! Some of them made Taribo West look like a member of a boy band, Taribo and the Haribo's

tis team gay/bisexual in the limp pricks