Just booked my flight down to Mexico City June 30th for their knock out round of 32 (no ticket just capturing the atmosphere) If they win it’s gonna be a once in a lifetime party (even more so if the #tartanarmy# is in town)

Scotland's Tartan Army of soccer fans marched through Boston, after the Scottish team won their first match at a World Cup since 1990, with a 1-0 victory over Haiti

Scotland's raucous Tartan Army of supporters gathered in downtown Boston, with fans saying they had no qualms about the thousands of dollars they are spending to see their team return to the World Cup after a 28-year absence

Bars in Boston are gearing up for a second tidal wave of drinking by Scotland's Tartan Army of football fans who nearly drained some pubs of all their beer in the first weekend of their World Cup occupation of the city

In the @Specator, I've written about the contrast between the ugly image of America created by the sneering, European Left and the beautiful reality that confronted the Tartan Army -- and fans of other European teams -- when they set foot in the United States. "This was a very different America to the caricature those fans would have been told about by the Trump-hating anti-capitalists who’ve been running Scotland (into the ground) for the past 19 years. Scotland has the most draconian hate speech laws in Europe, having passed the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act in 2021. Yet in Boston, these Scots discovered that living in a country that celebrates the free enterprise system, complete with the First Amendment, isn’t such a nightmare after all. Let’s hope they return to their home country determined to get rid of the tin-pot dictators who’ve been trying to turn the birthplace of the Enlightenment into the North Korea of the North Sea."

Haiti fans brought their Carnival groove to downtown Boston ahead of their team's first World Cup match since 1974, competing with the bagpipes of Scotland's Tartan Army, which has also set up camp in the city