iggle

So here is this hypothetical situation.

• I am a none EU citizen
• At the age of 13 I move to UK, cant speak English and get tax payers education and free healthcare. My family have never paid into this.
• I am very gifted at sport, so my coach pays for me to get a British passport to get around visa's.
• I am now a British citizen
• After using and abusing the British passport, I now move to USA, to train

Would you route for me when i compete for Britain?

Also i don't like meat, and will make smug adverts telling you I don't like meat.

Pulaski

Which direction are you going?

jam25mack

MO Farah at a guess...

mikelincs

OK, so he might have got his Citizenship a little earlier than he should, but the publicity he has gained for the UK has been worth a lot more, and you could say a lot similar about South American soccer players etc who have been granted Spanish citizenship within a couple of weeks of arriving in Spain, just so as they could play for Spain, and the Brazilians given Portuguese citizenships fir the same reasons.

christmasoompa

Unlikely, given that Mo Farah moved to the UK when aged 8, his father is a Brit, and he only moved to the US a few years ago, after he'd lived in the UK for decades. So he's a Brit through and through, and naturally most Brits would root (or 'route' as the OP would say) for him.

So either the OP is referring in a peculiar manner to somebody else, or he's just got his facts wrong and is on a slightly racist wind up for no reason.

iggle

I would disagree, he's a mercenary. He is no different to the Moldovan that won a Bronze for UAE. I don't care that Mo's dad was born in London, he's not British. I give you an example. I live in UAE, I have a child, its born here. Is that child an Emariati? No. The child is and always will be British.

Anyway, It's how Team GB works. Even my beloved England Rugby and England & Wales Cricket club now sign anyone thats lived here for a couple of years.

Alas, no it wasn't a dig at Mo Farah I was building up to something else. Mo is a pr!ck any way!

Dorothy

These two statements contradict each other. So Mo's father was British but Mo's not. Your child was born to a British father but he's British.

iggle

They don't contradict. Actually I already stated if my child was born in UAE it wouldn't be Emarati, it would be British. So Mo's dad born in London, doesn't make him British, he's still Somalian. He had a handout passport due to international law. No different to Middle East women that fly to Canada whilst 8 months pregnant; hey presto their kids are now Canadian.

He's not the greatest British sportsman of all time, he's a mercenary.

christmasoompa

Jeez. I can see why you would vote Trump, seems you're uncannily similar in views and intellect.

Inselaffen

as he did not move to the UK for sporting purposes, Yes.

Inselaffen

Think Iggle just doesn't like Africa after his recent trip. must have got crabs from a local professional.

iggle

haha - I am not a Trump supporter in anyway

Actually I love Africa. I much prefer it to Asia. He got a British passport for visa reasons only. That makes him a mercenary. Big Mo who is fantastic athlete should represent Somalia where he is born, raised and is from.

Bahtatboy

You obviously had a really rough week with Vlad the Impaler and Igor. Try sitting on a rubber ring, it should ease the pain.

Inselaffen

what about Chris Froome? Born and raised in Kenya

Meow

Mo Farah's father was born in London and Farah was just eight when he moved to the UK. He has therefore spent most of his life, including his childhood, in the UK, is British by descent and thus entitled live in and compete for the UK. (I believe he currently lives in the US as he trains there.)

I would certainly root for him. (Although he's a runner his route is mapped out so I don't believe he needs a hand with that.)

Eight year old children do not decide where they want to live nor are they mercenaries. The negativity towards him smacks of Daily Mail style racism and Islamophobia.