WORLD CUP : World cup number cruncher

0 — appearances made by England’s untested 17-year-old striker, Theo Walcott in Germany

1 — penalties converted by England in their quarter-final spot-kick shoot-out against Portugal

2 — position accorded Sweden’s Markus Rosenberg in a vote on the sexiest footballer at the

World Cup by Dutch gay magazine ‘Gay Krant.

3 — yellow cards handed out by innumerate English referee Graham Poll to Croatia’s Josip Simunic during a 2-2 Group F draw with Australia.

4 — players sent off in hot-tempered Portugal vs Netherlands quarter-final

5 — number of goals from Germany’s Miroslav Klose placing him atop the World Cup scoring charts

7 — number of times Sven-Goran Eriksson said sorry after yet another World Cup campaign ended in an early flight home for England

10 — Zinedine Zidane’s soon to be vacant shirt number

12 — Luiz Felipe Scolari’s number of successive World Cup wins, a run brought to an end by France in Wednesday’s semi-final

15 — all time World Cup goalscoring record set by Ronaldo

16 — Fabian Barthez’ number of World Cup appearances (before the final), a French record

20 — record number of cards handed out in the infamous Portugal vs Netherlands quarter-final

25 — people injured when a car drove into the crowd at the fan mile in Berlin

34 — the age of France midfield legend Zinedine Zidane

40 — cigarettes a day smoked by Mexico coach Ricardo Lavolpe

57 — the time of Thierry Henry’s goal which dashed Brazil’s hopes of a second successive title in Frankfurt last Saturday

120 — French record number of caps won by defender Lilian Thuram

141 — goals scored at the 2006 World Cup before Sunday’s final

369 — the number of minutes France went goalless at the World Cup, a run stretching back to the 1998 final and ending with Thierry Henry’s first half strike against South Korea in Leipzig

1,500 — euros, the black-market price of a ticket for Sunday’s final

25,000 — number of fans who turned up for a Brazil training session at Offenbach

40,000 — dollars, the salary received by the trigger-happy referees at the World Cup

80,000 — pounds, amount splashed out by the WAGS (English players’ wives and girlfriends) in a

one hour shopping spree at Baden-Baden

200,000 — pounds, reportedly lost by a businessman on England winning the World Cup

50 million — pounds, the amount

wagered by British punters on the England vs Portugal quarter-final