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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Philipp Lahm

Scottish fans’ friendly USA invasion exemplifies the joy of the World Cup

A large group of bagpipe players in traditional Scottish dress march down a residential street
Scotland’s Tartan Army on the march to Miami’s LoanDepot Park baseball stadium. Photograph: Paul Childs/Reuters

I could watch videos of the Scots online for hours. Wearing kilts, they marched through Boston playing bagpipes. In the stadium, the Tartan Army roared their team to victory against Haiti, their first World Cup win in 36 years.

Afterwards they went to a baseball game and, singing and wearing knee-length red socks, turned a Boston Red Sox home game into part of the World Cup – and one of its highlights, too. In the stadium they had the rules of this sport, which we Europeans find difficult to understand, explained to them.

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