International likes, dislikes...

This is good, from the New York Times, an analysis of countries' opinions on other countries' football.

It should be a great source of pride for the English that we only feature once in the "team to root against" column: good old Argentina.

Also, the Japanese and Australia pick the English for "who plays the most beautiful soccer".

It'll probably surprise the media to see that the English are, after the USA, the least interested in football of all the surveyed countries. Maybe we need to separate out the sports coverage into special newspapers like they do in Spain, France etc.