Talk:Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics

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Russia Виктор Бутусов – V.Butusov At this player was 5 more brothers. All played football. It is necessary to write сapital letter of a name

to name V. (Виктор - Viktor)

-- Gavrilov Sergey — Preceding undated comment added 15:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My only concern is that the article fully and clearly explains the true situation, as found in reliable ext refs (per

). The Football Association explicitly states that that 1912 team was representing "England" (their word, not mine; clearly in contrast to 1908 where the FA explicitly call the team "Great Britain"). The 1908 and 1912 team photographs are also crystal clear: 1908 team: Union Flags, but 1912 team: St George's Cross. The IOC (in retrospect?) allocated the medal to GB & I. We need to make both these facts explicit, but there is no doubt whatsoever that that was an England team. --Mais oui! (talk) 11:20, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The team was an England team, just like how Austria didn't represent Austria-Hungary. Wikipedia has a problem of retrospectively altering names to match current usage, such as Holland being called Netherlands on all old football results despite the name switch being recent. 2A04:4A43:8D9F:F107:CD8:D800:C62E:C1F3 (talk) 12:07, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]