{"id":640744,"date":"2026-06-16T00:27:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640744\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:27:24","slug":"scotland-fans-call-for-better-crowd-system-at-next-world-cup-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640744\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland fans call for better crowd system at next World Cup match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 64,000-seater stadium, normally known as the Gillette Stadium, is located in the suburban town of Foxborough &#8211; about 30 miles from central Boston where the bulk of the Scotland fans are staying. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the facility &#8211; home to the New England Patriots NFL team &#8211;  boasts a very large car park it is less geared up for public transport access, and transport officials said they faced an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; challenge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Special trains were laid on and ran effectively but many fans faced long queues at the station in Boston &#8211; and then experienced more delays getting into the stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Weir, from Glasgow, travelled to the Haiti match on one of the yellow school buses that had been hired by fans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;There was a bit of tailgating, beers etc then we tried to get in at seven &#8211; so two hours before the game kicked off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was just a sea of people getting funnelled into not enough gates, airport style security. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After an hour of not really moving, a bit of a crush, they just opened the gates and let everyone in.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 64,000-seater stadium, normally known as the Gillette Stadium, is located in the suburban town of Foxborough &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-640744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640744","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=640744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}