Forrest Keen On Olympic Chance

Published: 20 Jan 2012 - 14:37:09

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With fixtures for July still up in the air, James Forrest is playing it cool regarding involvement in the Olympics.

James Forrest is still interested in playing for Team GB in this summer''s London Olympics despite warnings of a backlash from Scotland fans from SFA chief executive Stewart Regan. Forrest, along with Celtic team-mates Scott Brown and Adam Matthews, were asked by GB coach Stuart Pearce if they would be willing to be considered for his final squad.

Olympics would clash with an games Celtic may be playing in July and then the team v country tug-of-war comes into play. Forrest said: "It has not been decided to be fair, it will be another couple of months. But I am still open to the idea. It is obviously up to the club as well, it depends on whether they have fixtures in July.

The club have said that if I want to play in it then they said I can but obviously if we have fixtures then obviously they won''t let us go. There is still a long way to go until then."

SFA chief executive Regan warned this week of a potential backlash against any Scotland players taking part in the Olympics, but Forrest side-stepped that threat by saying: "It is obviously a hard decision to make. We have the second half of the season to go with Celtic so we will wait and see how it turns out."