England fever sweeps the nation as replica shirts sold out ahead of Three Lions Euros final clash against Spain

England fever swept the federation yesterday arsenic replica shirts sold out, shops and restaurants pledged to adjacent aboriginal and superior schools promised to let bleary-eyed pupils to travel successful precocious connected Monday.

A huffy scramble for flights, edifice rooms and tickets to the Euro 2024 last connected Sunday ensued aft the team's melodramatic triumph implicit the Netherlands.

While Three Lions fans astatine location began booking flights to Berlin, those already pursuing the squad successful Germany were piling connected to trains bound for the superior successful the anticipation of witnessing England's archetypal tourney triumph connected overseas soil.

But it isn't conscionable the hopes of the federation that person soared - country rates successful Berlin person besides rocketed, and galore flights were already sold retired yesterday.

Up to 50,000 fans could question to the German superior successful the anticipation of seeing England marque past by securing their archetypal trophy connected overseas soil.

But fans who haven't managed to get tickets volition inactive beryllium capable to look guardant to sunshine arsenic the upwind is acceptable to amended implicit the play aft a disappointing commencement to July including agelong spells of rainfall and thunderstorms.

Temperatures connected Sunday evening are expected to scope arsenic precocious arsenic 24C crossed cardinal and confederate parts of England, with highs of 21C successful Scotland, Northern Ireland and bluish England.

Greg Dewhurst, forecaster astatine the Met Office, told the PA quality bureau that Sunday evening 'will consciousness rather lukewarm successful the sunshine', adding 'any showers that are astir should slice away'.

Stand-up comic John Bishop moved his gig successful Wolverhampton connected Sunday nighttime to the day truthful the Liverpool instrumentality tin ticker the large match.

The bulk of the Ivy chain's restaurants volition besides adjacent astatine 7pm connected Sunday, on with each of the Bill's chain's branches truthful that unit tin ticker the final, portion Tesco had antecedently announced its Express stores would besides adjacent up of footwear off.

JD Sports' website was yesterday sold retired of England's distant shirt, portion lone small, mean and XXL sizes of the location garment - worn successful each crippled of the tourney truthful acold - were available.

Nike's online store had tally retired of location shirts successful ample size portion distant shirts were sold retired successful large, XL and XXL, though Sports Direct had amended levels of stock.

West Wycombe School was among those offering children a 'soft start' connected Monday greeting 'so that they could enactment up a spot aboriginal connected Sunday to spot the large match'.

The lucifer is improbable to decorativeness overmuch earlier 10pm, and could beryllium nearer to 11pm if England are taken to penalties again. But a station connected the superior school's Facebook leafage said that children could get anytime from 8.30am to 10.30am connected Monday morning.

All of Ryanair's 21 flights from UK airports to Berlin betwixt Thursday and the last are sold out, portion immoderate airlines with spare capableness were charging 5 times much to question earlier the crippled compared with a week later. 

EasyJet's 12 flights to Berlin from Birmingham, Bristol, Luton and Gatwick betwixt Friday and the lucifer are besides afloat booked, but inactive had flights from Manchester disposable yesterday.

Tickets for Sunday night's last astatine the Olympiastadion were connected connection connected the Stubhub resale tract for betwixt £925 and arsenic overmuch arsenic £12,003 for a hospitality seat.

But aft London Mayor Sadiq Khan was branded a 'killjoy' for failing to acceptable up a nationalist screening of the semi-final, the Labour person announced that the last volition broadcast astatine The O2 for 15,000 fortunate ticketholders.

James Lane, 46, a institution manager from Bridgnorth, Shropshire, made a spur of the infinitesimal determination to alert retired to Dortmund connected Tuesday for the semi-final against the Netherlands with person Andy Simmons.

He added: 'I was expected to beryllium going to Butlins successful Skegness with the woman and kids for this play but she's taking them connected her ain now. She'll beryllium alright - I conscionable couldn't travel this acold and not spot it done to Berlin.'

He joked: 'It's coming location - but I mightiness not be!'

Berlin's Hilton Hotel was charging £1,199.56 for Sunday nighttime erstwhile the lucifer is played, but the adjacent nighttime the terms drops to £114.48. A two-night enactment astatine the Crown Plaza Berlin City Centre Ku'damm is £612 per nighttime this weekend, but conscionable £93 per nighttime the play after.

A JD Sports spokesperson said: 'JD's England merchandise income skyrocketed implicit six-fold for past night's epic semi-final triumph against the Netherlands - having already jumped by astir 3 times astir the melodramatic triumph connected penalties against Switzerland successful the 4th final.'

An easyJet spokesperson said its pricing was demand-led, which had meant fares person risen.

BA said it saw a 1,000 per cent summation successful searches for flights to Berlin successful the hr aft Wednesday's match. The hose said it was 'looking astatine putting connected further flights and changing the craft benignant to bigger jets' to get much fans to Berlin.