Ghost town: The M25 in Essex was deserted just after last night’s game kicked off

earned your place in the final eight of the World Cup and you should know the whole country is right behind you for Saturday! Come on England! W.’ Before the match, England fans invaded Moscow’s Red Square to stage an impromptu singalong.

Russian police and security guards wore bemused expressions as supporters sang ‘football’s coming home’. Back home an estimated TV audience of 20million gathered in their living rooms or in bars, pubs and clubs to cheer on the team. Black cab driver Michael Ryan – joined by his two teenage sons – wore an ‘Only Fools and Horses’ facemask in Red Square before the game and told how his three-day trip had set him back £3,500. ‘As Del Boy would say – lovely jubbly. But me and my boys are having a great time. I am just hoping that England can pull off a World Cup win but I am used to disappointment because I am a West Ham United fan.’ After the final whistle he was anything but disappointed last night.