DESPITE French horror at England´s violent football louts, who smashed up Marseilles on June 15th before a match between England and Tunisia, some Britons still get a friendly press in France: the Scots. They have been widely praised (1) for their seemingly in-domitable high spirits (2) (amid expected defeat on the playing field) and sense of fair play. One French reporter, impressed by the “indestructible smile and ever-genuine kindness” of Scots fans, has called for an inquiry into the “euphoric effects” – more potent, it seems, than Viagra or Prozac – of wearing a kilt. Scottish fans who imbibe gallons of beer and whisky and who occasionally bare their bottoms are readily forgiven.

(THE ECONOMIST, JUNE 20TH 1998)

We can deduce from the passage that Scottish fans would be LEAST likely to