If only England had drawn they would have finished a World Cup unbeaten for the first time since 1966, But they had to go and win. They now appear likely to play Germany in the next round, lets just all pray it doesn't go to penalties and take a minute to cast our mind back to 2001 and remember this scoreline from Munich.
George Osborne has been very clever by choosing to announce his emergency budget cuts at a time when people are much more worried about England being knocked out of the World Cup. He should still be 'shadow' chancellor with stealth like that. £85billion of spending cuts to come on Tuesday, why not just wait and take it out the England players wages if they don't get through on Wednesday.
