England fans ‘drinking USA dry’ as World Cup bars say they’ve ‘never seen anything like it’

England fans have turned the World Cup into the World SUP – and are drinking America dry. Three Lions’ supporters necked 45,349 pints in one Dallas bar alone during Wednesday’s 4-2 opening game victory over Croatia.

Many celebrated by climbing onto a mechanical bull and jumping into a water fountain at Texas Live. Bemused bar staff said demand drowned out the amount of ale they would expect to serve at a Dallas Cowboys NFL play-off game.

At Dallas’s Londoner Pub & Grill fans supped 5,000 beers – worth £30,000 – in just three hours. Staff said: “Our plants need replacing and some furniture is worse for wear. But we were honoured so many English wanted to be at our pub.” Brewers are drafting in emergency supplies to meet what bar bosses have described as ‘historic’ demand.

The city of Boston is facing a perfect storm after Scotland fans drank it dry in the week between their opening matches against Haiti and Morocco – only for England supporters to pile in ahead of their second game against Ghana on Tuesday.

The parent company of Sam Adams said its Boston Taproom ran out of its flagship lager with Scotland fans supping four times as much as the bar usually sells over the four-day Fourth of July holidays.

Boston Beer Co execs said they had been forced to schedule an emergency delivery of beer on Saturday and plan to add extra deliveries this week for incoming England fans. A spokesman said: “We’re adding extra deliveries this week to make sure we have enough.”

The Taproom’s Billy DeCain said: “We’ve never seen anything like it.” Asked if he was short on supplies Paul Morris, of the city’s The White Bull Tavern, said: “Pretty much everything. We ran out of everything. Tennent’s being number one. The fans have been unbelievable. They’re great – fun, drinking, partying — having a great time.”

Fan Dave Orr said there was ‘no beer’ in the Tavern, adding: “The Scottish fans just drank the place dry. All they had was Bud Light.” Noelle Somers, chief operating officer at Hennessy’s Bar, told The Boston Globe that sales ‘tripled St. Patrick’s Day’. She said: “We’ve been here for over 30 years and we’ve never seen anything like it.”

Boston Police have called on England and Scotland fans to behave during the cross-over this weekend. “We know fans from England and Scotland will both be here. We encourage fans to be conscious of the laws and their behaviour and actions. We have an increased police presence and are working with our law enforcement partners.”

The booze blitz has not just rocked America – it hit England too. Pubs sold 5.7 million pints on the day of the Croatia match.

According to The Oxford Partnership, which monitors the UK hospitality industry, England’s opening match ‘delivered a substantial uplift in trading performance’. Boozer sales were up 55.5% – with every London bar flogging an extra 119 pints.

A spokesman for the body said: “While major football tournaments consistently generate additional demand the scale of the uplift highlights the importance of England’s national team in driving consumer behaviour.

“The scale of the increase highlights the exceptional demand generated by England’s opening World Cup fixture within the capital, where a large concentration of workers, residents and tourists combined to create one of the strongest football-driven trading occasions in the country.

“The strength of the performance is particularly encouraging given the wider challenges facing the hospitality industry. “Midweek trading can often be heavily dependent on weather and local events, but England’s involvement in the World Cup created a national occasion capable of driving consumers into venues regardless of normal weekday patterns.”

Lager was the fans’ favourite boasting a 60.1% upturn in sales making it the ‘drink of choice during football viewing occasions particularly when major international tournaments create large-scale social gatherings’.

But sales of stout, cider and beer were up too. Analysts reckon fans at home and abroad will sup 770 million pints during the tournament.