After the big one comes the even bigger one for Scotland…
After the big one comes the even bigger one for Scotland
BREAKING Last weekend in Boston, Scotland played their most important game of international football in 28 years, a walk on the wildside against Haiti, a game that put the heart sideways in every Scot but, ultimately, sparked the party to end all parties in the city they called Beantown.
More like Beanotown, more like Scotland, Massachusetts. For almost four decades there was a character in the DC Thomson comic called Ball Boy, a wee football-obsessed lad who couldn’t kick a can down a street without thinking he’d scored the winner in a World Cup final.
Boston has been overtaken by Ball Boys, full-time dreamers and relentless ambassadors for their country. There isn’t a cop in the city who hasn’t been charmed by them, nor a local business that hasn’t benefited hugely from the Tartan Army dollar.
They’ve been a happy whirlwind, a force of nature that will be missed when it blows out of town in the coming days.
Before the exodus, though, there’s a job to be done. Such is the rarefied air they’re breathing at this World Cup, what we said in previewing Haiti can be said again in looking forward to Morocco.
