{"id":632538,"date":"2026-06-11T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632538\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:04:11","slug":"scotland-fans-arrive-in-the-us-as-world-cup-anticipation-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632538\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland fans arrive in the US as World Cup anticipation builds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those in the Shetland branch of the Tartan Army believe they are among the most dedicated members because of the extra travel involved from the far north of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 30 will be travelling from Shetland to the US for the World Cup, including brothers James and Stuart Milne, from Brae in the north of the mainland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They started their journey by travelling to the central belt of Scotland to join a group of friends, before flying from Edinburgh to Frankfurt, then on to New York City before taking a party bus to Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The brothers have each spent about \u00a36,500 on match tickets, accommodation, flights, internal flights and transfers during the trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And we&#8217;ve not even bought a pint yet!&#8221; jokes 41-year-old James, who planned the trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While James is a long-time member of the Tartan Army, his 40-year-old brother is a more recent recruit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stuart says they have become &#8220;a lot closer&#8221; through attending matches together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Having your brother sitting next to you in a stadium when the game kicks off, for me it&#8217;s everything,&#8221; added James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those in the Shetland branch of the Tartan Army believe they are among the most dedicated members because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}