"The last time I wrote something here I mentioned that the word 'Great' had been inserted into the association name. Well, it had, but then it was deleted again. When the AFL finally got around to going to work on the logo, they checked with us again which name we preferred. I was about to say the longer one, but the British guys on the committee then decided the short name would look better and be easier to say. And it turned out they weren't overly offended by the lack of the word 'Great' after all.

 

This island is Great Britain, and that is the area we cover. We don't cover Northern Ireland at all, they are under the government of the ARFLI, I believe. So the UK is not our domain. And we are not specifically English either, as whilst both Wales and Scotland have their own associations, for now we are under the same umbrella, even if we don't actually do a lot for each other just yet. That will hopefully change as AFL Britain hits its stride.

 

So this is the British association and we operate in Great Britain. But nobody is going to be confused by the omission of the word 'Great' in the association title. And the logo looks a lot better, and it is much quicker to say, which will hopefully reduce the number of times we are reduced to an acronym, which sounds far less sexy.

 

So it is AFL Britain officially, and in red, white and blue!"