In Nuremberg, organizers revealed 70,000 England fans who flooded the city drank 1.2 MILLION pints of bier - an average of 17 pints each. Astonished bar keeper Herrmann Murr said: "Never have I seen so many drink so much in such little time."
"They lumbered from end to end, desperate to stop the blue surge of Italians and salvage their World Cup. Two U.S. players had been ejected. What could have been the winning goal was disallowed."
"Standing near an RV in the infield at a NASCAR race, the subject of soccer and the World Cup came up, quite unexpectedly. "What's the World Cup?" asked race fan Rich Possinger."