It was just around midnight Beijing time when this happened. We needn’t say any bit more, for both the US and England qualified for the Eighth-finals — and you know what happens when two big English-speaking nations win at the same time.

Twitter broke. In just about no time. England won minutes before the US got a last-minute ball in. The rest, they say, is history. Twitter broke down in no time — for a few moments, even those in China on a VPN couldn’t resolve to twitter.com.

The fact that America won drove the US mad. Both the White House and Starbucks tweeted out their joy.

In England, the response must have been deafening, although England’s own goal early on must have drowned out some bit of the cheering early on. (That was a fair bit back!)

Congratulations to England from America. From China.