Half of Londoners are planning to find an excuse to bunk off work ahead of England’s match against Denmark at Euro 2024, a poll has said.
Around 51 per cent of football fans in London are likely to find an excuse to be off work before the Three Lions next group stage match kicks off at 5pm, according to the survey by Amazon Fire TV.
Londoners were the most likely Britons to swap their shirts and ties for St George's flags and face paint, the poll found.
Behind the capital, 41 per cent of football fans in Leicester are likely to “develop a sniffle” before the game while 31 per cent of fans in Manchester and Cambridge may pull a sickie.
Four in ten of the football fans surveyed believe that England will reach the Euros finals again this summer.
Ahead of the Denmark fixture Gareth Southgate has revealed he has spoken to his England players about the intense scrutiny on their individual performances at the tournament and urged them not to be "thrown off track" by the attention.
Several of Southgate's players, notably Phil Foden, Harry Kane and Trent Alexander-Arnold, have racked up hundreds of column inches since England's opening game, the unconvincing 1-0 win over Serbia on Sunday.
Twelve of the England squad are at their first major tournament and the manager addressed to the group on Tuesday night, ahead of the second group game against Denmark, about the need to deal with the intense glare.
Elsewhere Scotland kept their hopes of progressing into the knockout stages of the Euros alive with an entertaining draw against Switzerland in Cologne.
