Nina Farooqi, 37, from Bradford, missed work after her friend offered her a last-minute ticket to the game on Wednesday. But the digital content producer, whose seat was right behind the goal, ended up losing her job when television cameras zoomed in on her celebrating England's triumph.

       Ms Farooqi told the Telegraph: "It’s mixed emotions: we’re through to the final, I’m still on that high, but I’ve also lost my job."

       She said she called in sick as she believed her work was unlikely to give her the day off due to being short-staffed.

       Ms Farooqi, who described football as her "life", got the train from Leeds to London Kings Cross at lunch time.

       When she found out her seat was right behind the goal, Ms Farooqi shrugged off fears she could get caught in a 66,000-strong crowd.

       But when she checked her phone at half-time she realised she'd been captured on camera celebrating England's equaliser.

       And she had even made it onto presenter Stacey Dooley's Instagram.

       Ms Farooqi said: "We were all over the news, my face was on every television screen across the world - I had friends from Australia and America telling me they’d seen me.

       "I was even on Stacey Dooley's Instagram story.

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       "My phone blew up. The whole world had seen me celebrating.

       "The rational part of me thought, 'oh no, is this going to come back to haunt me?'"

       After catching a 6am train to Yorkshire for work on Thursday, she was told not to come in.

       Ms Farooqi said: "They said they’d seen I’d been at the game, and I was honest about why I did it.

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       "But I didn’t get any sympathy at all and they said that's it.

       "That’s their call and the consequence of what I did.

       "There is a bit of regret, no one wants to get fired, but then also I would have hated the regret of missing out. I’d do it all over again."

       The Three Lions roared to a 2-1 extra-time victory in the nail-biting semi-final.

       Gareth Southgate's men will now take on Italy in the final at Wembley on Sunday.

       Charles Taylor, director at Composite Prime, Ms Farooqi's former employer, said: “It’s an exciting time for everyone in England and given the opportunity, we would have encouraged attendance to such an important football match. Unfortunately on this occasion our employee lied, taking one day off sick to attend the football match on Wednesday 7 July.

       "This was in breach of her employment contract and so we had no choice but to take the appropriate action. As a business we value honesty and integrity, and we don't tolerate any employee taking advantage of our policies.

       "Like many businesses will be doing across the county, our staff will be having Monday morning off to hopefully recover from celebrating an England win!”