{"id":637957,"date":"2026-06-14T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637957\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T08:36:13","slug":"jubilation-as-scotland-fans-celebrate-first-world-cup-win-in-36-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637957\/","title":{"rendered":"Jubilation as Scotland fans celebrate first World Cup win in 36 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nineteen-year-old Alex Stewart, from Forfar, was among those who were celebrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For me it&#8217;s the first time seeing Scotland at a World Cup and watching us win a game is unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re sitting top of the group. It opens the group up entirely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Looking ahead to the next two games in the group, he added: &#8220;You&#8217;ve got two big names in Brazil and Morocco&#8230; just go for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Craig Stewart, 31, also from Forfar, was &#8220;ecstatic&#8221; about the result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While he admitted the performance had been &#8220;shaky&#8221;, he said the result was what mattered at the end of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nineteen-year-old Alex Stewart, from Forfar, was among those who were celebrating. &#8220;For me it&#8217;s the first time seeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637957","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\/637957","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=637957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}