Here we go! England fans pack out Dusseldorf bars for tonight's Euros after shelling out up to £1,400 to fly out for Three Lions clash - but Jack Grealish's dad stays at home to watch from the pub

England fans packed the bars of Dusseldorf's Old Town and riverside promenade this greeting up of the team's 4th last face-off with Switzerland, with immoderate singing fans tucking into the beers alongside their breakfasts.

The hordes of England fans included businessman and England superfan Barry Daff, wearing a three-piece suit successful the colours of his country. 

The 71-year-old has been to 5 World Cups and took the suit to Qatar. During that World Cup successful 2022 helium befriended the begetter of guardant Jack Grealish portion some were staying connected a cruise ship, dubbed HMS Wag arsenic it was besides wherever the players' wives and girlfriends were billeted for the archetypal signifier of the tournament.

Mr Daff, from Oakham, Rutland, spoke to MailOnline arsenic helium headed for a beer, having conscionable secured a summons for the lucifer for an eye-watering £575. 

He arrived successful Dusseldorf connected Friday, saying: 'I question connected my ain but I ever conscionable radical erstwhile I'm here. The suit is thing of a speech starter, radical conscionable travel up to me. It's ever a bully bunch.

'I'm lucky, I've got a fewer bob truthful I tin spend the ticket. 'I conscionable emotion to question but my woman Angela backmost location doesn't similar sport.

'But I deliberation we'll play good contiguous and we'll triumph 2-0.'

Mr Daff, who runs his ain concern selling and exporting powerfulness procreation equipment, said helium had planned to question retired to Germany with Grealish's father, Kevin, until the winger's daze omission from the Euro 2024 squad.

'He's backmost location watching the games from a pub', Mr Daff added. 'He's an astonishing guy, truthful hospitable. I emotion him to bits.'

Mr Daff said radical who halt him wearing his trademark transverse of St George suit 'think I've had it specially commissioned, but I bought the suit overgarment and waistcoat from a store successful Leicester, and sourced the reddish trousers separately, disconnected the peg.'

Further on the packed Bolkerstrasse, England fans from Burnley and Bristol were pinning their flags to an bare store front, arsenic fans sang 'Phil Foden's connected Fire' astatine different barroom yards away.

The Three Lions Fans soaking up the ambiance besides included a Stoke-born teacher who flew successful from Australia to ticker the lucifer with a erstwhile workmate and 3 different friends.

Claratte Goodhead, 34, and Sean Cunningham, from Stretford, 32, met years agone moving a summertime play successful Ibiza selling tickets for nine events. 

Ms Goodhead said she had spent £1,400 flying successful from Sydney, astatine the commencement of a two-week vacation successful which she volition sojourn household backmost home. 

She said: 'We person been excessively restrained successful the tourney up until now. Southgate needs to fto the brake disconnected and if that happens we tin triumph this tourney due to the fact that we're connected the easier broadside of the draw.'

Mr Cunningham agreed, saying: 'I deliberation we'll triumph 2-1 with goals from Foden and Bellingham. And if we triumph contiguous I deliberation we tin triumph the full thing.'

Father and girl Mick and Eva Holmes besides travelled retired to the lucifer from their location successful Sheffield.

Mr Holmes, 30, dyed the six-year-old's hairsbreadth successful the colours of the English flag, adding: 'It's my champion effort, if her mum was here, she'd bash a amended occupation of it.'

Mr Holmes, who works successful the nationalist sector, said the pair's tickets had outgo successful implicit £1,000 and joked 'I'll beryllium doing a batch of overtime erstwhile I get back'.

Eva is thing of a societal media prima who travels location and distant with her begetter watching Sheffield United. 

She has a TikTok relationship called Chopsys Football Diary' with 16,000 followers and her begetter said the 47,000-capacity Dusseldorf Arena volition beryllium the superior schoolgirl's 46th crushed visited.

Also successful Dusseldorf with his children was Aaron McLoughlin, 39, who drove to Dusseldorf with sons Ashton, 12, and Elliott, aged eight, yesterday from their location successful Boston, Lincolnshire.

He said the trio watched Germany's elimination astatine the hands of Spain successful a riverside instrumentality park, earlier moving to the Old Town wherever they 'partied with the England fans until 1am'.

Mr McLoughlin added: 'It's a representation for them some and they loved it. We had fans lifting them connected their shoulders – England fans are retired present successful numbers - and it was a due party. But the boys are a spot bushed today.'

As adjacent much fans question to Dusseldorf hilarious photos amusement them catching 40 winks connected the mode arsenic they hole for a boozy nighttime celebrating Britain's champion team.

One adjacent showed disconnected the champion of our country's innovation ducking beneath his pal's seats for a bully kip connected the bid carriage level arsenic helium travelled from Hamberg.

Following past week's last-minute triumph against Slovakia, England are playing Switzerland successful the Euros quarter-final arsenic fans backmost location are acceptable to down arsenic galore arsenic 45 cardinal pints successful a booming time for boozers.

Three cardinal are heading to bars crossed the state alongside 23 cardinal viewers expected to ticker the crippled from home across BBC1 and iPlayer - the highest figures since the 2022 World Cup.

Pubs are acceptable to payment from a £150 cardinal spending spree connected booze and nutrient arsenic unit are acceptable to service up 22 cardinal pints.

And astatine location the fig of fans dashing to the fridge to drawback much cans astatine fractional clip is expected to beryllium truthful important that the vigor web is bracing itself for an energy spike arsenic large arsenic a nuclear power station's output. 

It comes arsenic tensions are already precocious arsenic hard-core fans marque their mode to Germany, with fights breaking retired arsenic Brits clashed with the big federation aft they crashed retired of the tourney past night. 

As galore arsenic 40,000 England fans are expected successful Dusseldorf for their Euros quarter-final with Switzerland – contempt an authoritative summons allocation of conscionable 6,700.

Nick Mackenzie, CEO of pub concatenation Greene King, which volition merchantability 425,000 pints successful 90 minutes, said: 'It volition beryllium our busiest crippled of the tournament. The Euros are providing a large boost to pubs arsenic communities travel unneurotic to cheer connected the team.' 

And British Beer and Pub Association main enforcement Emma McClarkin added: 'Pub goers cognize determination is nary amended spot to bask the crippled than the pub. An other 8 cardinal pints could beryllium drunk connected Saturday.'

Boxpark large surface outdoor venues volition beryllium packed successful London's Wembley, Croydon and Shoreditch, arsenic good arsenic successful Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol.

But not everyplace successful the state volition beryllium embracing Euros fever - arsenic Wimbledon has banned the England crippled for People's Saturday.

Now umpires are connected alert to interrupt play to archer disconnected noisy spectators cheering portion watching the shot connected their phones, with offenders risking being removed from courts by stewards.

An All England Club spokesperson said: 'We won't beryllium showing the Euros. Our screens volition beryllium showing the tennis.' 

Prince William, who is besides the President of the FA, volition articulation the crowds successful the Dusseldorf Arena arsenic they combat retired the crunch match.

And extracurricular Number 10, present Keir Starmer's residence, bunting has been strung up extracurricular wherever the football-mad PM has been holding his archetypal Cabinet meeting. 

It comes arsenic tensions are already precocious for England fans overseas aft clashes with German supporters past night, pursuing the big nation's melodramatic exit against Spain.

Footage from the streets of Dusselford showed taunts being thrown, earlier fists flew and constabulary sealed disconnected some sides of the thoroughfare wherever fans had been drinking each time successful Alstadt. 

One witnesser said: 'The England fans were taunting the Germans astir them losing to Spain and past they started singing songs similar 'have you ever seen the Germans triumph a war?' 

'There were astir 20 English men who got progressive successful confronting a radical of Germans and past a mates got progressive successful a punch up.'

Glasses were utilized arsenic missiles and brew was thrown implicit the Germans, arsenic riot constabulary stopped radical from entering the country astir a barroom called Steak-Haus.

The scuffles were implicit rapidly but England fans tried to enflame the concern again by singing 'La Viva Espanol'. 

Police sent officers to patrol and support rival fans apart.

There were further sporadic outbreaks of unit involving England fans. Beer was thrown astatine German supporters which led to further fights adjacent to the Mississippi Bar.

Some England fans were seen inhaling from achromatic balloons, portion the centre of Alstadt remained tense with riot constabulary charging successful done the crowds arsenic warring broke retired successful assorted spots.

British constabulary 'spotters' were monitoring the England fans to stitchery grounds and liase with German colleagues.

Police person besides warned fans that they are successful acute information of falling foul of a shocking currency instrumentality scam is plaguing the city.

Compared with the UK, Germany is amazingly backward connected a integer level, and currency precise overmuch remains king. 

Though the usage of integrative has skyrocketed since Covid, contiguous Euro coins and notes stay the sole means of accepted outgo successful galore pubs and cafes.  

'The victims stated that their EC cards had seemingly been withdrawn from the ATMs used.

'During these operations, the victims heard cracking noises and the show allegedly showed a fault: 'This ATM volition beryllium acceptable to work you again successful a moment'.'

But England fans present turning to currency points successful Duesseldorf are astatine highly superior hazard of losing their wealth by being scammed.

In an 'urgent warning' statement, a spokesperson for Düsseldorf constabulary said: 'This week, determination has been an summation successful offences successful transportation with the manipulation of ATMs successful the metropolis of Düsseldorf.

At this point, the guiltless victims past had their cards swallowed by the machine, connected the knowing that their currency petition would soon beryllium processed.

But alternatively of being returned, the slope cards were past stolen 'by chartless perpetrators and subsequently misused astatine the aforesaid ATM oregon astatine different locations'.

Düsseldorf constabulary is present urging radical not to usage an ATM if they announcement thing unusual.

And it says that if your paper is swallowed, bash not permission the location, alternatively instrumentality retired your mobile telephone and telephone the slope oregon the police.

England fans person been mostly well-behaved done the archetypal 4 weeks of the tournament, with lone 1 incidental of unit astatine the archetypal lucifer with Serbia successful Gelsenkerchen.

40,000 England fans are acceptable to descend connected Dusseldorf – contempt an authoritative summons allocation of conscionable 6,700. 

Tens of thousands are owed successful Germany's enactment metropolis for Saturday's clash, which volition spot nary repetition of the booze restrictions antecedently deployed for Three Lions' matches.

Ove the past week, fans person engaged successful a hopeless scramble for tickets for what volition beryllium a sold-out clash astatine the 47,000-capacity Dusseldorf Arena. 

On resale tract viagogo connected Wednesday night, the cheapest seats were being offered for £457, with 1 connected the beforehand enactment adjacent to halfway listed astatine adjacent to £3,000.

Dusseldorf is known arsenic 'the world's longest bar' acknowledgment to the much than 300 pubs successful its aged municipality area.

And a immense contingent of England supporters is acceptable to flood its constrictive streets contempt an underwhelming tourney from Gareth Southgate's broadside truthful far. 

Only a magic infinitesimal from Jude Bellingham successful the 95th infinitesimal saved them from decision past week arsenic they came backmost from down to unafraid triumph successful other clip against Slovakia. 

The broadside are yet to play successful the metropolis but fans person flocked determination up of games successful adjacent areas acknowledgment to its vibrant nightlife with galore cardinal hotels are sold out.

Unlike England's visits to adjacent Gelsenkirchen, determination volition beryllium nary peculiar measures erstwhile it comes to buying drinks successful the stadium.

At the opening crippled against Serbia, fans were served low-alcohol, 2.8 per cent beer.

At their return, for the last-16 clash with Slovakia, booze was backmost to mean spot but fans were lone allowed to bargain 2 drinks per sojourn and were not allowed to instrumentality them to their seats.

No specified restrictions volition are expected astatine Saturday's match, which kicks disconnected astatine 6pm.

Today, energy request is expected to spike by up to 1,200 megawatts, National Grid figures for erstwhile England large tourney knockout games showed.

The spike is acceptable to beryllium arsenic large the 1,188MW output of Sizewell B atomic powerfulness station, Suffolk.

National Grid declined to comment, but has said previously: 'Fridge doors are opened astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic fans get different drink.

'We are experienced successful managing demands successful existent time, truthful a powerfulness chopped is simply a precise debased risk. If request is excessively high, we tin summation powerfulness stations' output.'

England's semi-final decision to West Germany astatine the Italy 1990 World Cup saw Britain's grounds abrupt powerfulness surge of 2,800MW.

And arsenic 2 thirds of Brits are expected to get connected the booze during the game, experts are informing them to beryllium other cautious this evening. 

The informing comes arsenic information from the DVLA shows that determination were 7,304 incidents – including 191 fatalities – caused by drivers, riders and pedestrians impaired by intoxicant successful 2022. 

Direct Line person said motorists successful built up areas should instrumentality other attraction erstwhile driving connected Saturday night, arsenic 4.7 cardinal shot fans are acceptable to instrumentality to England's pubs, bars and instrumentality zones to cheer connected Southgate's squad. 

It comes arsenic probe shows 18 per cent of adults with a afloat UK driving licence accidental that they've had to abruptly halt their conveyance successful the roadworthy owed to an intoxicated pedestrian, portion 16 per cent person had to swerve to debar an intoxicated pedestrian successful the road. 

Almost a 4th of respondents said they person fallen successful the roadworthy arsenic a effect of being intoxicated and a further 16 per cent injured by a vehicle. One successful 5 person had an statement with a motorist owed to being drunk. 

Matt Pernet, Head of Motor Insurance astatine Direct Line said: 'Whilst we're hoping determination volition beryllium origin to observe astatine afloat clip connected Saturday, determination volition beryllium a immense fig of fans connected the streets pursuing the match. 

'For those driving, we impulse them to instrumentality other caution and support an oculus retired for crowds of perchance intoxicated fans connected the roads.

'Those watching the lucifer extracurricular of their homes should program their way location up of clip and not get down the instrumentality if they deliberation they mightiness beryllium implicit the limit.'