Other World Cup anecdotes

London insurers, some of the most creative in the world, have priced and sold policies to England fans for mental trauma and other losses that could potentially result from England's 10th consecutive failure to win the Cup ("when England loses, I get upset, and when I get upset, things get broken!").

Over the border from Northumbria, on the other hand, the same insurers were selling policies to Scots for mental trauma and other losses that could potentially result from an England win.