A shock Scotland victory in the Group B decider against Australia would have seen them edge their fellow Britons for second place.
Clive Myrie, the BBC Mastermind host, said he was left “shaken” after receiving death threats which involved “talking about the kind of bullet that he’d use in the gun to kill me”.
For England’s defenders, the hulking figure of Aleksandar Mitrovic represents a familiar yet formidable foe. Gareth Southgate’s backline know all about the threat posed by Serbia’s bruising target man, but that knowledge will not necessarily make him any easier to stop on Sunday.