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Good question -- there's also an Albion Rovers FC in Wales if I remember correctly. I think the answer may be that Albion is ambiguous - sometimes used to refer narrowly to England, sometimes used to refer more widely to Great Britain see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion

"perfidious Albion" has long been a pejorative phrase used by other countries to describe treacherous and duplicitous acts by British governments. I've always thought it had a nice ring to it. I expect we'll hear it used again in the coming months in the context of Cameron trying to find ways of...