England coach Roy Hodgson has urged the nation to get behind his team today.
England open their World Cup campaign against Italy.
Hodgson said: "What we really want from people back home is support, we want encouragement. We want them to believe, we want to give them something to cheer about. Nothing would please us more than to give a performance on Saturday night that has everyone at home thinking 'This is terrific, what a good England team, didn't they play well'.
"That's our only goal and we can only hope they give us the support we need and that they go to bed on Saturday night as happy as we will be if we get a good result from the game. I was proud and excited in 1994 when I took Switzerland to a World Cup and very proud to represent the nation. But England is the country of my birth, it's even greater this time to be able to take England to a World Cup."
