In mere hours time Wembley’s corporate boxes will be full of football fans stuffing their faces with lobster while their seats sit empty and England play Russia. Whatever the result tomorrow, one thing we can guarantee is that our red top Fleet Street friends at The Sun, Star and Mirror will come up with some glorious Soviet based headline puns. So can we beat them to it? Here’s our top guesses at what the hacks will go for, hopefully you lot can do even better…
Robinson saves the day, by playing well for once…
FROM RUSSIA WITH GLOVE
McLaren balls it up…
HE’S OFFSKI!
Owen gets injured, brutally…
BACK IN THE USS ARRRGGGGGGGHHH!
McLaren loses…
MUST GO! (pronounced Moscow… okay, this one doesn’t work)
McLaren does something tactically insane…
SOVIET LOONIUN
Emile bangs in the winner…
HESKI!