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It’s crazy. Wasn’t my best of goals but who cares? Look at this [waves arms at the crowd]. Unbelievable. I scuffed it a little bit.
Haiti are a decent team by the way. They played New Zealand off the pitch, Peru as well.
It was a must-win game and we won. Absolutely over the moon.
We’ve been through a lot of hurt as a country. A generation hasn’t seen this. The pride on my face this morning seeing all the kids going to the parks in their Scotland kits, painting their faces. Hopefully when they get up tomorrow they will be as proud as I am. Sets us up brilliantly for Friday.
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Just said to the captain there that it was about time we won a game in the group stage. We probably put the supporters through it a bit. Everyone said it was a must-win game. We won the game!
This is what this team’s all about. If teams let them play, they play but if they have to dig in and show that character and resilience, that’s what they do. The defence was outstanding.
We could have been better with the ball but who cares? We won.
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For the first time since June 16 1990 in Genoa when they beat Sweden, Scotland have won a World Cup match and lead Group C.
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Dykes apples the press on Placide as he tried to launch it long and he shanks it out for a Scotland throw.
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Haiti take the free-kick and work it to Experience to run on to, cut inside and blaze over from 20 yards.
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Kenny McLean wipes out Casimir with a kick across the thigh. Immediate yellow card. Could have been red. Wasn’t a heavy blow but could have been interpreted as reckless or dangerous play.
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Dykes and Experience clash in midair and Haiti are rightly awarded the free-kick. Scotland win the header from the cross but a long ball back into the box from Arcus almost finds Pierrot perfectly but his connection is either poor or non-existent and Gunn grabs it.
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Curtis is booked for a high boot when fighting for possession with Adé.
It’s getting very tense on the terraces. Scotland fans can watch . But just about. Liam Gerrie, six years old, who may well be the only sober Scotsman in the crowd, is watching through his hands. “I think Scotland can get this over the line,” he said with a bit of prompting from his father Joe, 35.
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Patterson fouls the sub Fortune on halfway and Haiti launch an attack ultimately down the left but Ferguson makes an interception to put Scotland back on the front foot.
Six minutes of stoppage time to come.
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Joseph collides with Hendry, a glancing coming together, as Scotland tried to clear their lines and the ref awards them a free-kick prematurely because McLean had a chance to launch a counter-attack with the numbers in Scotland’s favour.
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McTominay almost slips through but Delcroix makes a crucial tackle. Moments later Curtis dribbles down the left and misreads Dykes’ signals, playing the ball too far ahead of the substitute centre-forward.
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Haiti continue to huff and puff. Is Scotland’s house made of straw, wood or bricks?
Pierrot flashes a header wide after beating Hanley to Bellegarde’s cross from the right. Should have scored.
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Christie is penalised for a shove on Bellegarde which didn’t amount to much.
Curtis → McGinn
McLean → Shankland.
It’s 4-5-1 now with McTominay just behind Dykes.
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It’s now Haiti fans making all the noise as anxiety takes hold of the Tartan Army. McGinn loses the ball after Scotland clear the corner and Providence and Joseph work in tandem to put Providence through down the left of the box but again he fires his shot into a defender and again Scotland deal with the corner calmly and competently.
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Casimir beats Christie twice to play the ball across the 18-yard line to Bellegarde who smashes a shot into Hanley, possibly his arm. The ball rebounds to McTominay who loses the ball almost immediately and allows Providence to get a shot off that Patterson crouches to block and turn behind for a corner.
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Scotland ring the changes:
Christie → Adams
Patterson → Hickey
Dykes → Gannon-Doak
One for Haiti too:
Joseph → Isidor
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Big chance for McGinn when he traps a diagonal chip to the left of the penalty area and drags his shot wide from about 12 yards. Haiti counter from the goal-kick and Providence whistles a right-foot curling shot from the left of the D past the right post.
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McGinn buys another free-kick by nudging ahead of his man and then slowing down to make a collision inevitable. It’s the equivalent of the crash for cash insurance scam… but perfectly legal.
Robertson spins the free-kick into the box and McTominay protests he was being held when he was unable to shake off his marker to meet it.
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Slow start to the second half from Scotland. They haven’t got a grip on the game. Both teams starting to tire. Scotland seem content to let Hati have the ball and defend in a mid-block for now.
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Jean Jacquwes bends a long pass down the inside-left channel but is let down by his twin centre-forwards who did not split in time and allowed Gunn to gather without challenge.
Water Break II: The sequel.
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Casimir → Deedson
Deedson had lost his spark this half but was a real handful in the first.
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Tactical/professional/cynical foul by Shankland to stop Providence spreading his wings and sprinting away from him. Again the ref keeps his cards in his pocket. From the free-kick Haiti get down the flank again and whip over a dangerous cross. Haiti do look like scoring if their centre-forwards stay on their feet instead of looking for the World Cup’s softest pens.
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Pierrot flops down in the box when he should have been challenging to meet Providence’s cross. He appeals for a penalty but the referee shakes his head allowing Gunn to gather the ball and trigger a counter with Robertson up the left just failing to put his centre in Shankland’s range.
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Robertson goes galloping down the left again and anticipates a return pass from Hendry will be right in his stride. Instead it’s behind him and brings the attack to an abrupt halt.
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Robertson pelts down the left and bends an outswinging cross around the penalty spot. Shankland lances out a leg to try to hook it in but cannot reach the ball’s flight and though Gannon-Doak is behind him, the winger’s angle is tighter and his shot thuds into a defender and out for a corner which Hanley nods over the bar.
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Gannon-Doak diligently tracks Providence’ run to help Hickey and holds him off to make sure the ball runs out for a goal-kick.
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From the free-kick Haiti earn a corner which they take short to Providence and the left winger bends a right-foot cross that floats just beyond the back post. He points to Isidor and asks him why he wasn’t more eager to make a run.
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Ferguson has to foul Pierrot on halfway because the centre-forward had nudged ahead of Hanley, held off the centre-half’s challenge and was about to motor away.
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Now Gannon-Doak is brought down by Experience’s stiff-ram challenge as he tried to hare past on the outside. If that type of foul merited a booking for Hickey, it should have done for Experience there. But the ref lets him off and Scotland, like Haiti, make a mess of the free-kick.
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Fine defensive work by Delcroix to thwart Gannon-Doak, running across the winger and using his strength to nick the ball away.
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Haiti kick off, both sides unchanged and Hickey is booked within 30 seconds for grabbing Providence round the collar and pulling him to the floor after the winger threatened to drive past him down the outside. Haiti waste the free-kick by picking out Gunn.
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It was a cagey start but everyone’s getting used to the conditions but we can do better and need to build on that John McGinn goal.
They’re really aggressive on the counter-attack but if we’re better in possession then we will control the game better.
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The whistle comes with McGinn, high up the left, having to double back and play a safe pass back to Robertson because Adams didn’t make the run McGinn was gesticulating at him to make.
Gannon-Doak has been very impressive but so has Deedson and it’s fairly evenly poised. Scotland are in front but need to find the confidence to play and the fluency will follow.
It says a lot about the Scottish mentality at a World Cup that every single clearance has been cheered in Glasgow!
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McGinn buys a foul off Deedson by running across the winger then slowing down to invite the contact. McGinn was sweeping up after another promising Haiti attack with Experience again to the fore with a left-wing cross across the 18-yard line.
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The first of four minutes of stoppage time ends with Scotland being give a free-kick when Hickey is caught flush across the puss by Providence while the two were wrestling on the Haiti left wing.
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An offside flag lets Pierrot off a clumsy touch when a cushioned trap from Providence’s cross might have set up a shooting opportunity from 12 yards.
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Hickey has improved since a shaky five minutes early on. Now they need Robertson and McGinn to shut down Deedson of FC Dallas.
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Deedson glides past McGinn down the Haiti right and crosses. Pierrot rises to meet but so does Hickey to make the clearance.
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The BBC feed goes down for about 20 seconds but someone sticks a dollar in the meter and it springs back into life just at the moment that Bellegarde is disciplined for a late challenge.
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Deedson carries the ball 30 yards up the right with McGinn, having lost the ball, unable to keep pace with Robertson caught upfield. He works the ball to Pierrot who centres for Isisdor and Hickey makes a vital, superb sliding tackle.
Well that’s got the tartan army going. On the terraces, the fan next to me was confiding “we really are shite” only for John mcginn to score seconds later. The screams are huge, the blaring of the proclaimers 500 miles adding to that really special moment. Worth the 28 year wait? There’s still an hour to go…
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Gunn flaps, spills a shot and needs Hendry to bail him out with a strong challenge on Isisdor. Deedson is doing to Scotland what Gannon-Doak is doing to Haiti.
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Gannon-Doak is at it again and crosses for Shankland who flicks his near-post header wide.
John McGinn scores Scotland’s first goal at a World Cup since Craig Burley against Norway in Bordeaux in 1998. Showed that Haiti vulnerable at the back. The touch from Adams to get the long ball over the top under control and then the skill from Gannon-Doak made it. The ball came back out McGinn and his shot took a big touch off Wolves’ Jean-Ricner Bellegarde. Scotland much better for being rapid in attack.
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Haiti 0 Scotland 1 (McGinn) Hanley chips a 60-yard pass over the inside-right channel, Adams controls it beautifully on the volley and plays it to his right to Gannon-Doak. The winger runs at Experience and fizzes a low cross through the six-yard box and Adams has made the run to apply the finish but his effort comes back off the post to McGinn who makes no mistake with a left-foot shot that was heading for the bottom right until it was deflected by Bellegarde into the opposite corner.
Haiti full-back Martin Experience needs all his hard-earned ... nous, to keep Gannon-Doak in check.
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Deedson glides through midfield and sprays a pass out to Providence on the left. He and Experience combine to play the ball into the box for Isisdor but Hanley gets in front of him and Isisdor goes down like a bag of hammers. Another flop.
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Isisdor sits on the ground demanding a penalty when Hanley barges into him while a Deedson cross from the rights ails harmlessly down Gunn’s throat. The replay shows he executed a flop, on his way down before the touch.
Time for a water break. Soundtracked by Scotland/Newcastle’s Eurythmics and Sweet Dreams.
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Haiti look a very well-coached side and they’re playing with no little verve.
The McTominay shot against the post was a move that came from a quick transition that put Gannon-Doak one-on-one with the full-back. Looked much better than when trying to build play slowly or chasing long goal-kicks.
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Gannon-Doak pushes Experience and Providence on to the back foot, robbing the former in the Haiti box. He wins the ball and taps a yard to his left to McTominay to crash a left-foot rasping shot into the right post about two-thirds of the way up. Haiti make the most of the rebound to break at pace, catching Hanley on his own and his notorious lack of pace allows them to flood past but a poor ball into the box from Deedson lets them off the hook and leaves two of his team-mates with their heads in their hands at his profligacy.
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Now they need Hendry to deal with Experience’s early cross from the left that arced towards the back post. Hendry managed to back head it away from goal while being fouled by Isidor. Scotland have the free-kick. They need to shut down the right side of their defence. Experience is having a field day so far.
Scotland don’t seem to have the confidence to play through the high Haiti press from goal-kicks. As a result they are going long.
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After Scotland’s bright start, Haiti have wrested back control and are beginning to cause Scotland problems when exploiting their mistakes in passing. They have a free-kick nearly 40 yards out but Bellegarde floats it out wastefully for a goal-kick. Scotland need to get a grip. A minute before conceding that free-kick they had given the ball away and allowed Bellegarde to find enough space in the box to the left of the penalty spot to spank a rising shot over the bar.
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Ferhguson receives a kick in the goolies from Isidor as the two fell to the ground after a tackle. Haiti work the ball from the restart down the left and Experience pounces on Hickey’s mistake as he was trying to shepherd the ball out for a goal-kick, mugging the full-back to cross to Deedson who spins on to it and blazes over.
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Robertson and McGinn link up slickly again, McGinn playing the ball back to his overlapping captain with a clever backheel. Robertson whips the outswinging cross over to the back post and McTominay goes straight up, like a rat up a chimney, but heads over from 15 yards.
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Careless play from Shankland coughs up the ball with McTominay stranded up the pitch. Deedson gallops through but rakes his left-foot shot from 25 yards wide.
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Robertson to the fore again, finding McGinn with a cute pass who works a pass into Shankland on the half-turn and the striker swivels to shoot into the legs of a defender who had closed the gap to inches.
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Ferguson, who plays further forward for Bologna, is sitting quite deep here. He works the ball down the left to Robertson who feeds a short, square pass to Adams who loses his footing when challenged fairly around the 18-yard line. The ball breaks to Gannon-Doak who cuts in off the right to shoot with his left. Placide dives to his left to smother. It was just bending wide.
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Scotland kick off and deploy three runners on the right and the left. They go to the right with a deep chip and three chasers and Experience heads it out for a throw-in. Scotland recycle from the restart but Hickey’s ball over the top skips off the turf and behind for a goal-kick.
Whatever happens, at least Scotland had the best pre-tournament advert in that wonderful Trainspotting-inspired Adidas spot featuring Scott McTominay and Andy Robertson. Also with a cameo from the great Scots novelist – and Trainspotting author – Irvine Welsh.
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First up it’s La Dessalinienne followed by Flower of Scotland. Goodness me, what a noise. The volume is astounding.
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Scotland in their pink and purple, Haiti in white. In a moment, the national anthems. The draw between Morocco and Brazil means victory for Haiti or Scotland would send them to the top of the group.
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The American cheerleaders are giving it the full works. I’m guessing they’re the New England Patriots cheerleaders. They have a lot of talent but Cameron Mitchell, 27, from a wee village in Perthshire isn’t so sure this American lark suits the beautiful game. “We don’t get that at Hampden and I don’t think we should. It’s very American.”
He’d been in a downtown bar in Boston prior to the trek out to the stadium. The bar had opened at 11am and run out of lagers by 1pm.
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Has combined his love of Scotland and LCD Soundsystem to produce this banger:
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The flights across the Atlantic have been drunk dry; kilts and sporrans appear de rigueur; and whole Massachusetts’ neighbourhoods have been woken by a dawn chorus of bagpipes. Welcome to a corner of New England that’s been turned Scottish.
On Friday tens of thousands of Scots descended on America’s most historic and educated city – home to Harvard, MIT and now the Tartan Army – ahead of Scotland’s first match at a World Cup in 28 years. The wait has made the excitement and anticipation all the greater. No wonder they’ve turned to drink.
Fans landing at Boston’s Logan airport had only one grouch. “We ran out of beer, that was my only complaint,” bemoaned Darren Wilson on arrival where he was greeted by a phalanx of US television crews. The pilot told WBZ-TV that when the beer ran dry, the fans switched to wine. He had no concerns.
Fans had one hell of a send off from Edinburgh airport. About 100 members of the Tartan Army had been escorted to the departure gate by the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Pipes and Drums.
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Now it feels real. The Scotland team has come on for the warm up to the piped battle cry of Scotland the Brave. The light is fading and the cheers have gone up for the Scottish team. Definitely way louder than the applause for Haiti. Huge cheers as the giant video screen shows Andy Robertson warming up. He’s the captain and the fans love him. Obviously.
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Haiti Placide; Arcus, Ade, Delcroix, Experience; Deedson, Jean Jacques, Bellegarde, Providence; Pierrot, Isidor.
Substitutes Alexandre Pierre, Duverger, Thermoncy, Sainte, Etienne, Nazon, Lacroix, Metusala, Joseph, Fortune, Casimir, Duverne, Paugain, Simon, Woodensky Pierre.
Scotland Gunn; Hickey, Hendry, Hanley, Robertson; Doak, McTominay, Ferguson, McGinn; Shankland, Adams.
Substitutes Kelly, Gordon, Tierney, Fletcher, Dykes, Christie, Stewart, Souttar, Hyam, Hirst, Patterson, McLean, Ralston, Curtis, McKenna.
Referee Mustapha Ghorbal (Algeria)
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Out go Hassan Kachloul and Gus Poyet, enter Jimmy Perez and Malcolm Tucker Scott Brown and Rachel Corsie. Kelly Cates and Joe Hart keep their places.
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Placide: Arcus, Adé, Delcroix, Experience; Deedson, Bellegarde, J Jacques, Providence; Isidor, Pierrot.
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Steve Clarke makes one change from the starting XI of the 4-0 victory over Bolivia last weekend, John McGinn replacing Ryan Christie:
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This stadium is quite something. There’s a huge lighthouse at one end and the stands tower towards the deep blue sky. There’s a blaring sound system that has me wondering just how many times Bruce Springsteen has been played at American sporting events. If the Boss gets even a cent for every time, he’d be richer than the fella Elon Musk. Which he just might be.
Kick off now less than two hours away and a few fans have already taken their seats. But most are milling around the vast concourses, just soaking it all in. Remember while Scotland haven’t been to a World Cup in 28 years, Haiti last got to a tournament in 1974, a whopping 52 years ago.
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My analysis is entirely unscientific but I’d say Scots outnumber Haitians by something like 20 to one in the attendance stakes. Scotland’s support is genuinely spectacular. Something like 40,000 fans have descended on New England. Most of them are not exactly drunk but definitely merry. And lovely with it.
Kirsteen Macdonald, a finance officer from Glasgow, who is sporting Saltire deely boppers, had a very pleasant journey, getting to the ground, about an hour and a half’s drive from Boston. “I am 55 and I had four vodkas before I got on the train. There was a lot of singing but I slept through it. I can sleep on the edge of a knife.”
Mrs Macdonald, here with her husband Chris, is confident. They’ve got tickets for this game and the final group match against Brazil in Miami. The trip is costing them £10k. And why those two matches? “We are only going to the games we are going to win.”
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Jean-Ricner Bellegarde could well be in the shop window at the tournament following Wolverhampton Wanderers’ relegation to the Championship. The French-born midfielder possesses that much-prized ability to beat players by dribbling through the middle of the pitch. Sunderland striker Wilson Isidor will be another leading light.
This is an extract from our team-by-team guide which you can read here.
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But it’s not just Scotland having a party this evening:
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Billy Bremner, who captained Scotland at the 1974 World Cup, died at the harrowingly early age of 54 in 1997. Many of his maxims live on around Elland Road, great to see one embraced by his beloved Scotland.
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The Scots – or at least the Glaswegians – are definitely supporting Morocco. Huge cheers as they take a deserved lead. Judging by the state of some people here, they are going to struggle to make kick off for the Scotland game! Let’s just say alcohol has definitely been consumed today.
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Delighted to be in the USA watching Scotland play Haiti tonight, honouring a promise I made to my youngest many years ago that if Scotland qualified we'd go together to see them play... and hopefully win.
— Gordon Brown (@GordonBrown) June 13, 2026
Will he ditch the suit for once?
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Morocco have taken the lead over Brazil. Read more here.
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And they’re in. Scotland fans back supporting their team at a World Cup venue for the first time this century. There are loads of them streaming in. Fifa has been trying to tell fans that leaving it for the last minute to hop on a bus or in a taxi won’t wash here. Journeys from Boston can take well over an hour and there are security checks. They want fans to get here early.
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The pubs are busy but the streets seem quiet in the centre of Glasgow.
I have just arrived at St Luke’s bar in the East End and suddenly it feels like the World Cup has arrived.
It is rammed, full of people in Scotland shirts. The band are playing the Proclaimers. I’ve sat outside. Way too early for that...
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I’ve been chatting with the unpaid volunteers who help the World Cup to run smoothly. There’s about 1,500 of them at this Scotland-Haiti game alone.
Tilan Perera, 54, tells me he’s been practising pronouncing the word ‘Edinburgh’ to make sure the Tartan Army feel right at home. He says he’s already nailed Glasgow but is well aware he probably won’t understand a word they’re saying.
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They are about to open gates for the fans at Foxborough Stadium and there are already big queues three hours before kick off. Lots of Haiti fans too. Official figures say just as many sold to Haiti fans as Scots but let’s see if that the case come kick-off.
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I’ve made it inside the stadium through a really hefty police and security presence.
There’s a lot of military police, dressed in battle fatigues who are very heavily armed. Normally US sports matches have minimal law enforcement presence. But authorities are taking no chances for a World Cup on home soil.
Fans are being held back and gates won’t open for the general public until 6pm.
But the noise of the Scotland fans being held outside can be heard above the roar of the helicopters circling overhead.
When the fans do get in, the first thing they’ll see is a statue of American football’s greatest quarterback Tom Brady, his right fist clenched in the air and his helmet in the other hand.
The Tartan Army will want their team to channel a bit of Brady magic at this, the home of the New England Patriots.
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It’s a story of stars and teeth (or lack of them).
Few of a Scottish persuasion would have imagined then that it would be nearly three decades before the country would get to go to a World Cup again.
As fate would have it, Steve Clarke’s class of 2026 have also been paired with Brazil, as well as Morocco, another of the opponents Brown’s men were pitted against in 1998.
Given the strength of an Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard-led Norway, Scotland will probably be grateful it is not a complete mirror image of the France ’98 group and they will instead kick off their campaign against Haiti in Boston on June 14.
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Busses with Tartan army on their way to Boston Stadium, this is the most insane thing I've ever seen. SCOTLAND 🏴🏴🏴 pic.twitter.com/u11SPfHdFm
— Ryan McGeary (@RyyGaming) June 13, 2026
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The stadium is not officially open yet and the only respite from the sun for Scottish fans are the giant stores in the nearby retail park. Strong sense of occasion among the travelling Scottish fans and a good deal of World Cup joy. Quite a few Haitian fans too.
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