It's not really accurate to compare the USA to a second-rate football club. The American position is more like: "No one likes us except Sarko, and we don't care, because they are old Europe, and they let us keep military bases on their soil and run our wars from there anyhow so their whining is irrelevant."

And please, your little Euro and "Pound Stuhhhling" are getting too expensive. Please take care of that before we get really mad ...