Employers get into the Euro spirit ahead of this afternoon's big game

And for most companies it will be business as usual as Wales and England lock horns in the crucial Group B game today.

But Brighton recruitment firms ICP Search in Bartholomews and Stelfox in Queens Road will be entering Euro fever as staff are treated to the game.

Gary Peters, chief executive of ICP Search, who will be watching the game in the office with his colleagues, said: “We’re embracing it.

“I just think asking people to take time off or booking the day off is ridiculous.”

Meanwhile, Stelfox’s Steve Kerassitis is taking his team to the North Laine pub to watch the game.

The managing director of the Queen’s Award winning company said: “The team have been working so hard we just had to take them out for the match.

“We hit our goals early this month so we are taking the chance to head out and watch the game.

“Stelfox are looking forward to watching the England game on Thursday and predict the only Brexit will be for Wales.”

Mr Peters said it was strange but heartening to see Welsh and English fans uniting in numbers against the threat of Russian hooligans in France, and told how his company was making its own gesture of goodwill.

He added: “Instead of having people call in pretending to be sick or book half days, we’ve got people coming in early or staying on later so we can watch the game.

“People will be coming in wearing their football kits and they’ll pay for the privilege which will go to our chosen charity Rockinghorse.

“We’ve got a couple of Welsh fans in the office, so I had hoped they’d have booked it off, but we’ll just crack on.

“It’ll be shown on the TVs in the office and we’ll got a beer fridge that we might crack open.

“It won’t be a party, but we’ve got a really good team here that want to hit their targets, so they’ll have made up the time before or they’ll stay on afterwards.”

SPLIT HOUSEHOLD

TODAY is the day everyone has been waiting for.

Well, almost everyone.

Welshman and Argus Euro 2016 correspondent Gareth Davies will be hoping Gareth Bale can put a dent in England’s European dreams.

But his girlfriend Amy Sheppard, pictured with Gareth, will be hoping for an England win just to shut him up.

She said: “Much to my disdain, sport is a constant feature in our flat.

Whether it be on the TV, on the laptop or sometimes both simultaneously, my boyfriend is always watching sport.

“This has recently hit maximum levels of annoyance for me, with the rugby international summer tours, the Sri Lanka series in cricket and of course the Euros being shown morning, noon and night.

“Thank goodness Wimbledon hasn’t started yet or I’m sure he would try to fit that in too.

“As you can probably tell, I am not a massive fan of sport continuously being streamed through any medium possible but I will take much glee in lording it over my boyfriend if England win against Wales today.

“In fact, if they do obtain a victory then I will take great pride in watching it happen and even more pride in seeing how a win over Wales destroys my boyfriend’s spirits.

“In all honesty, the sooner the Euros are over and my boyfriend stops continuously singing ‘Ain’t nobody, like Joe Ledley, makes me happy, makes me feel this way’, all the time, the better.

“I’m sure there are a great deal of girlfriends who feel the same way - especially if their boyfriend is as annoying and sports-mad as mine.”

Undeterred, Gareth has promised his patriotism will reach new heights, insisting he will only talk in Welsh for the day.

He said: “Dyw gemau felma ddim yn dod o gwmpas yn rhy aml i gefnogwyr Cymraeg, felly mae’n bwysig cymrud pob mymryn o bleser ohono fe. A does dim pleser yn bodoli sy’n fwy boddhaol nag ymaeddu’r Saes.”

(Games like this don’t come around very often for Welsh fans so it’s important to take every possible piece of pleasure from it. And there’s no pleasure on this earth more satisfying than beating the English.)