Home nations angered over Team GB 'deal'

The three home associations, determined to safeguard their own national identities in world football, issued a joint statement rejecting what the BOA had hours earlier called a 'landmark' announcement.

In it, they repeated a collective opposition to their players joining any Team GB.

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