I can recall a Brazilian playing football for Croatia, Maoris playing rugby for England, a Kenyan running for (I forget - Turkey?). In these cases we have competitors not good enough to play for their birth country getting citizenship somewhere with less competition for places - a win for the...
Indeed. Thatcher chaged the law in 1981 so that people with absolutely nothing to do with the UK, but had a British granny would be eligible to be actual citizens (category of passport holder and rights obtained was and still is very complicated, nevertheless). This wasn't specifically done for...
That's how it has always worked. Prevalence (of guns for hire hired) is related only to how discerning or needy the nation sees itself and, ditto the individual.
*cough* zola budd *cough*.