You couldn’t make it up:

Opera singing Brit Tony Henry has become a Croatian hero for mispronouncing a line in the country’s national anthem before its team consigned a lamentable England to the dustbin of footballing history on Wednesday night.

The ditty is “written in the old Croat style”, the Telegraph explains, and instead of singing Mila kuda si planina - “You know my dear how we love your mountains” - Henry thundered Mila kura si planina, or “My dear, my penis is a mountain”.

Apparently it helped to relax the team ahead of Wednesday’s dismantling of England and the Croats are calling for him to be appointed the team’s mascot for Euro 2008.

Well England won’t be needing him.

The Register / England flops shafted by enormous todger