The yellow school bus is a fixture of American public education. But for a few hours Saturday night, it became synonymous with Scottish soccer fandom.
More than a thousand supporters of Scotland’s national soccer team packed into a fleet of dozens of school buses for a 45-minute trip from Providence, Rhode Island to Gillette Stadium to watch their squad compete in the FIFA World Cup for the first time in nearly three decades.
GBH News gained exclusive access to one of the buses in the Scottish caravan to get an up-close look at Scottish superfandom as it descended upon New England. The bus was packed to the brim with members of the Tartan Army, the chosen name of Scotland’s travelling fans. Supporters of the team, all clad in kilts, sat shoulder to shoulder as they sang, drank (heavily), stuck their heads out of windows and waved Scottish flags in the 90-degree heat…