Midweek Sport

FINAL TONIGHT 7PM LIVE ON ITV THE GREAT TRAINING RUBBERY!

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has a population of 4.19m, making it the 125th most populated country in the world. 49 per cent of Croats speak English. Dalmatian dogs come from Croatia. Landing, home of the Royal family in TV series is filmed in Dubrovnik on the Croat coast. CROATIA gets more sunlight during the year than Sydney, Australia. Croatian city of Vinkovci is the oldest inhabited city in Europe. breeding the Dalmatian the Croatian language has no word for dog. Prime Minister Andrej Lancovic holds the World Record for eating dry crackers in one minute – 22. men are the seventh tallest on the planet. are still minefields in Croatia left from fighting after the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1990. ENGLAND skipper Harry Kane can complete a unique clean sweep tonight.

So far in his England career he’s scored a goal on every day of the week…except Wednesday!

He can finish the job tonight – and send the Croatians packing! ENGLAND stars had a RUBBERY time at their last training session before tonight’s crunch semi.

Boss Gareth Southgate had his players attacking each other in a warm-up drill with rubber chickens!

The lads could be seen throwing the chickens between them and then tackling one another to the ground as Southgate put them through their paces at their training base in Repino.

It was all part of Southgate’s unorthodox approach to preparatio­ns and his way of taking some of the tension out of the big match build-up.

Some observers thought it might have been an attempt to help them with their quick movements ahead of a game where every minor advantage could be vital.

Others just thought it was a bunch of really close mates having a good laugh together.

And we prefer that explanatio­n!

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