ENGLAND fans are set to get extra time to recover after Sunday night’s Euro final.
Many firms are allowing staff a lie-in on Monday morning to sleep off the boozy celebrations if the Three Lions beat Italy in the Wembley showdown.
Even schools are telling pupils to enjoy the match and come in later.
HR experts and unions yesterday urged bosses to let staff take Monday off to avoid clashes with workers who will phone in sick if denied leave.
It comes amid mounting calls for an extra summer bank holiday if England win so the nation can celebrate the Three Lions’ success.
Teachers at Rossmere Primary School in Hartlepool have told parents they can let their kids have a lie in on Monday morning.
Parents and carers were told the Euros final will be a “learning opportunity”.
Students will be able to show up for class by 10.30am on Monday morning.
A school spokesman told Teesside Live: “We would rather have children rested and in school ready to learn rather than absent all day or grumpy.
Meanwhile at Salcombe Church of England Primary School in Devon, pupils are also being encourage to stay up late on Sunday to watch the game.
The school said in a Facebook post: “If your child is a football fan and likely to be staying up on Sunday to watch the Euro 2020 final, then let them stay in bed a bit longer and get to school by 10.30am on Monday.
“We would rather have children rested and in school ready to learn rather than absent all day or tired and unable to concentrate.
“School will start at 8.40am but children arriving up to 10.30 won’t be marked as late, and they won’t miss any lessons.
“It’s 55 years since an England men’s team have reached a major football final so let them watch, talk about the importance of the National Anthem, talk about pride and resilience and possibly disappointment.
“This is a learning opportunity.”
The Sun has learnt officials are already drawing up proposals for a national day off so fans can celebrate free from Covid restrictions.
Cheeky supporters bombarded Boris Johnson with requests for a national holiday to celebrate an England win – with over 300,000 people signing a petition.
Pressed on whether the nation would be allowed a day to celebrate yesterday, the PM’s official spokesman said: “I don’t want to pre-empt the outcome of Sunday’s match.
“Clearly we want England to go all the way and win the final, and then we will set out our plans in due course.
As football frenzy reaches fever pitch, the PM wants bosses to go easy on staff who show up late nursing monster hangovers on Monday.
Around eight million workers — one in four — have booked the day off.
Millions more are expected to throw sickies.
Asked if he would urge leniency on cheeky workers turning up late, the PM’s spokesman said: “We would want businesses who feel able to consider it if they can.”
TUC boss Frances O’Grady said: “Bosses should talk to staff and try to let people who want to watch games do so — either at work, or at home — and claim back working time afterwards.”
Meanwhile, Chancellor Rishi Sunak predicted a win will fuel a £12billion euphoric spending splurge.
England are now favourites amid a betting spree at bookies.
The government has already extended pub opening hours to 11.15pm on Sunday in case of extra-time and penalties.
Mr Johnson signed off plans for extra drinking time for Sunday night’s Wembley showdown.
Meanwhile, there are calls for Southgate to be made a Sir if he becomes the first England manager since Sir Alf Ramsey to win a trophy.
Star players like Raheem Sterling – who already has an MBE – could also be in line for a gong, Politico reports.
Three Lions boss Southgate would make history if he steered England to their first-ever Euros triumph on Sunday.
If knighted, he would follow in the footsteps of Sir Alf, who led England to victory against West Germany in the 1966 final.
Experts hailed the economic boost for the country brought by the Three Lions’ Euros run, with the Centre for Economics and Business Research saying the tournament was “breathing new life into spending.”
And the Federation of Small Businesses said: “A good run is good for the economy and great for the nation’s spirits after the past year.”
Meanwhile, health boffins assured England fans that beer-chucking goal celebrations will not spread Covid yesterday.
Prof Paul Hunter, health expert at University of East Anglia, said: “I don’t think it would spread Covid – although it is a serious waste of beer.”
Champagne sales soared yesterday as confident Three lions revellers prepared to toast an historic England triumph.
Supermarket Morrisons got into the spirit by slashing the price of Heidsieck & Co Monopole Blue Top Brut Champagne to £19.66 from £28 up until Euro cup final day.
The electricity power surge recorded during Wednesday night’s soccer showdown with Denmark was one of the highest in modern times.
Fans putting on the kettle at half time or opening the fridge to grab a beer sent demand rocketing to the same level as the Russia 2018 semi-final against Croatia.
A record surge surpassing the all-time record during the Italia 90 World Cup semi is expected this weekend – possibly equivalent to the effect of a solar eclipse.
Meanwhile, England fans were being given 10-minute time slots to grab remaining gold-dust Euro final tickets.
Thousands of England Travel Supporters Club members will be refreshing their inboxes today praying for emails giving them the short window to grab seats.
Followers who applied for tickets but missed out in the ballot are in line as the The FA hopes to pick up an extra 2,000 tickets for the final from Italy’s allocation.
That would cheer 259 England fans who had their final tickets taken away as the FA only received a smaller-than-expected final allocation of 8,670 seats from UEFA.
But UEFA was happy to see fans miss out on tickets as it sold six-seat boxes for the final for an eye-watering £38,761 – £6,460 per head.
Final tickets for normal fans cost from £81, with the best seats costing £814.
The scramble came as final tickets hit £21,000-a-pair on the black market last night – up to 30 times face value on livefootballtickets.com.
England fan Graham Caygill, 42, from Berkhamsted, Herts, said: “I applied for tickets to all England’s Euro games – but didn’t get any.
“But it turns out this gives me priority in England Travel Supporters Club ticket ballots.
