They’re totally kiltin’ it at the pubs.
Throngs of Scottish soccer fans in Boston are charming the heck out of Boston as they arrived to watch their team play in the World Cup — with cheerful pub vibes, kilts and bagpipe performances.
Footage shows fans in jerseys merrily singing along to the team’s unofficial anthem “No Scotland, No Party” by Nick Morgan under a giant Scotland flag at an unnamed downtown pub.
“No Scotland, no party/ Steve Clarke’s Tartan Army!” fans can be heard wailing, pint-in-hand, in a nod to the team’s coach.
“They talk of France in ’98/ And all the years we’ve had to wait,” they croon. “It’s always been a dream/ A generation’s never seen.”
Scottish soccer buffs — who haven’t seen their team play at the World Cup in nearly 30 years — are seen grinning and dancing as a game plays on a big screen TV, the footage posted Thursday shows.
“It’s been so heartwarming to walk by pubs downtown and hear the cheering and singing. How a proper city should sound,” one observer wrote of the video.
“Love seeing our cousins coming to see us! Feels like America is their’s [sic] too!” another local gushed — as a third added, “Operation ‘Drink Boston Dry’ gets under way!”
Fans from the land of highlands and haggis were also seen singing, pint-in-hand, outside one of Boston’s classic Irish bars, and sporting kilts with jerseys at what appears to be a parade.
Hundreds of thrilled Scottish soccer fans descended drunkenly on Boston earlier this week, ahead of the Scottish national team’s World Cup match against Haiti Saturday.
On Wednesday some were heard blasting bagpipes in a Boston neighborhood at the crack of dawn — but they still managed to make friends with their neighbors.
“Update. I have made contact with the Scots and was offered an 8:00 am World Cup beer. If only I had taken the day off,” said Mike Miller, a neighbor who shot footage of the 6:30 a.m. wake up call.
Scotland’s team, which last competed in the World Cup in 1998 in France, will face the Haitian squad in Boston Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts Saturday, which the European team is a heavy favorite.
Fans from Haiti, meanwhile, have been barred from entering the US under a travel ban. However, dozens of supporters, many of them Haitian immigrants living in the Boston area, gathered to greet the team as it arrived at its hotel in Quincy, Massachusetts Thursday.
“I am super ready. I think Haiti can at least make it to the round of 32. Hopefully make it to the semis or quarters,” 12-year-old Noah Nicolas told CBS News in Boston. “It means a lot to me because that is my country, and I love representing my country. That’s something I can’t let go.”
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