Any nation willing to send the products of the best minds of a generation and a significant portion of its GNP hurling into space to blast a ball of ice three miles across will be treated very carefully by its neighbours.

ECONOMIST: Stop that comet

First Simon Davies earned a corner as he burst after a ball down the right channel, then Earnshaw slalomed in from the left to blast a shot off Per Mertesacker's shins.

BBC: Wales 0-2 Germany

Rooney outmuscled Ifil as the ball bounced back towards the Aberdeen goal but, with the goal at his mercy, the striker contrived to blast the ball wide of the near post when a shot across the bows of Howard seemed the better option.

BBC: Inverness players celebrating