The Beckhams and the British-US Sporting Divide

Jeremy Campbell of The Guardian's Sportsblog argues that the move of David Beckham and his family to LA and the MLS' Galaxy represents another turning point in the love-hate relationship between England and the United States. There is certainly too much provincialism on both sides when it comes to sporting cultures and nationalism, although I find the noxious tenor that American sportswriters and commentators, people who ought to make it a professional imperative to know better, take toward British and global sports to be particularly noisome.