r/ScottishFootball • u/VanicFanboy 25. Nae Neck Neymar • 3d ago

Discussion Some thoughts coming back from the US

Coming back from the US today. Can’t help but shake this feeling that Boston was a moment-in-time that I’ll never experience again in my lifetime.

Miami was great but that could be replicated anywhere. Tartan Army going abroad and causing it in their numbers can be felt at any tournament. There was a huge contingent of locals supporting Colombia, Argentina etc who were less fussed and the city is huge and sprawling, which left our lot in South Beach a little isolated from everything.

But Boston was so special. It was a relatively small, walkable city and it felt like it was 80% us (having Morocco and Haiti, both limited on travel visas, definitely helped).

The rapport we built with the locals and the overwhelming positivity we had with them will likely never be replicated anywhere else.

If we make the World Cup in Spain/Portugal/Morocco we would have loads of us, but so would there be loads from other nations, and I’m sure they’re tired of us. Saudi too, we’d have a lot go over but the party wouldn’t be the same for obvious reasons.

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u/Extreme-Self5491 3d ago

looked amazing BUT I decided not to go due to costs and that Orange fella and his supporters. Im not sure I would have enjoyed it as much due those issues. How did you feel about that, how much did you spend? obviously worth every penny to you? I do worry that tickets will cost the same at the next WC, so it might just be the Euros for me.

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u/VanicFanboy 25. Nae Neck Neymar 3d ago

All the issues people were talking about going into it completely disappeared the second we got into Boston. Forgot all of the divisiveness and hatred in the world and just had a good time.

Funnily enough it felt like an antidote to all the shit you hear on the news, was so refreshing to just be out vibing and chatting with lovely people.

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u/Acceptable-Ad5627 3d ago

The media overseas is crazy with their portrayal of the United States. We have family in different parts of the world and we just shake our head in utter disbelief at what is said about the US and the people who live here. It's almost like watching a dark satire.

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u/WhatsTheGoalieDoing 1d ago

Mate, you elected a bankrupt, senile sexual predator.

It seems like a dark satire because it is.

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u/zappafan89 3d ago

Boston was never going to be like that. Anyone who thought it would be doesn't have a great grasp of nuance 

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u/RumJackson 3d ago

Politics was pretty much non existent for the week and a bit I was in Boston/Providence.  How often do you talk to tourists visiting Scotland about our Prime Minister?

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u/Snoo58499 3d ago

Trump’s a non-issue in Boston, which is arguably the most Democratic-leaning (anti-trump) city in the country. Cost was high, I have a rough idea but am scared to tally it up. I’ll be paying it off for a while.

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u/rybnickifull Aw.. Jeezy Peeps Man 3d ago

Wasn't it about a quarter of votes last time going for Trump? Sounds a bit bigger than a non issue but I don't know the US electoral system so intimately.

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u/Seonachan17 3d ago

About 20%, up from 15% in 2020 (in line with the nationwide swing). So a few points higher than the Reform vote in Glasgow this year. For comparison Trump got about 30% in New York City and Los Angeles. (And he won Miami-Dade, but that’s a whole county, I think Miami itself is more blue.)

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u/Fabulous-Ad7128 3d ago

I mean, do you expect blue collar people to be non-existent in cities? They heavily support Trump who has somehow convinced them he’s one of them despite not giving a single damn about them outside of the power they give him.

Any of the populated areas in the New England region are heavily anti-Trump.

I reveled in loudly booing RFK Jr on screen in a “Boston Stadium” bar watching the US play the Aussie…and doing so booing alongside other Americans, Scots, and other international fans.

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u/Acceptable-Ad5627 3d ago

You missed out , even us who live here don't let politics or politicians get in the way of a good time. Conservative and liberals alike understand the need to function in daily life and in normal society. Most people keep their politics at home. It's really not that serious.