The Gardeners' World Blog

England's exit from Euro 2008 was a crushing blow for most of us in the Sport Interactive office in London (perhaps less so for some of our staff who hail from other parts of the United Kingdom!).

But on a professional level our job was to immediately recognise that millions of people would be coming to this website on Thursday to pore over the night before, and find out the very latest on Steve McClaren's employment status.

We were told on Friday morning that just under 3.9m people did just that, which meant that we broke our record for traffic to the seven-year-old BBC Sport website for the second time in two months.

In September, the day after Jose Mourinho's late-night departure from Chelsea, 3.7m people visited the site (which pipped the previous best of 3.65m who used the site the day after England were knocked out of the 2006 World Cup).