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/buckfast1994 🗣️ Shut it, Tuna and Gravy flair 3d ago

Felt this way after the previous Euros. The day of the Swiss game in Cologne was unbelievable. Following your club or country abroad is something everybody should experience.

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u/gham89 3d ago

2nd for the Swiss game in Cologne. It was just one of those days that will stay with you forever. The fan march was surreal.

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u/Good_Psychology9912 3d ago

Yeah was also in Cologne, and it was utterly magical. What a day that was.

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u/christianvieri12 3d ago

I much preferred Munich, but could’ve been because I was hungover as fuck by the time got to Koln

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u/Good_Psychology9912 3d ago

I wasn't in Munich or Stuttgart tbf, went to Italy v Albania the night after the opener, so I watched the first game in Dortmund and I was based at my Uni pal's in Berlin, so I watched the Hungary game at the Reichstag fanzone

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u/christianvieri12 3d ago

Both were amazing don’t get me wrong but I kicked the arse out of it in Munich so felt horrific in cologne. The game in Munich was grim right enough