‘‘I don’t like their football but I like their fans’ style,’’ he said. ‘‘They take taxis, so many, even Germans don’t take so many.’’

That spending power comes from the pound, for which you get 1.4 euro. Even the Americans are complaining but not the Brits. ‘‘It’s easy for us,’’ said Rob from Newcastle. ‘‘And the distances help; we can fly in the day before the match, fly out the morning after. Only costs us a hundred quid or so.’’

They’ll be mourning in Britain, too: The British Retail Consortium has predicted a windfall of 1.5 billion pounds from the World Cup, 125 million pounds for every extra week that the team spent in Germany, as fans spend on travel, TV sets, beer, food, and that important sector, ‘retail therapy’ for the football widows.

So who do Germany have left? The less affluent Portuguese and Italians and the less exuberant French. So they plan to make up for it by partying themselves. Going by their team’s performance, they’ll be partying for the next week.