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Why Haiti v Scotland was antidote to the ills of world football
Key takeaways
- Figure caption, Mc Ginn fires Scotland to first World Cup win for 36 years
- On the contrary, in the hours leading up to what turned into a surreally stressful evening as Scotland ground their way to a 1-0 win over Haiti, fans revelled in the traffic delays, inch by inch, yard by yard.
- The sense of anticipation and joy was so palpable you could have reached out and touched it.
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Figure caption, Mc Ginn fires Scotland to first World Cup win for 36 years
BBC Scotland's chief sports writer at Boston Stadium Published47 minutes ago After 28 years of watching World Cups from football's wilderness, there was never much danger of the Tartan Army getting antsy about the gridlock on the road to Foxborough.
On the contrary, in the hours leading up to what turned into a surreally stressful evening as Scotland ground their way to a 1-0 win over Haiti, fans revelled in the traffic delays, inch by inch, yard by yard.
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