Brown will present a petition, entitled “Save Scottish Football” - along with Christine Grahame of the Scottish National Party - to the Scottish Football Association at Hampden Park.

 

Grahame recently reported the English Football Association to the world govering body FIFA over claims that they and the Government were trying to force through a joint British football for 2012.

 

Jim Murphy, the Scottish Secretary, recently claimed that he had received assurances that a British team would not threaten the separate existences of the four Home Nations.

 

Brown said: "I don’t trust Fifa.”

 

The English-born Grahame, convener of the Scottish Parliament’s health and sport committee, said: “The threat posed by the creation of a GB football team goes way beyond football and if FIFA carries out the action outlined by their president just last year then that would have a catastrophic social and economic impact in Scotland as well as killing off football in Scotland as we know it.

 

“No one, bar a handful of politically-motivated zealots in London, wants a GB football team precisely because they recognise the huge threat this poses.

 

"Craig Brown’s petition is a welcome contribution and will give Scots the chance to let their voices be heard by MSPs.”