World Cup fans from Scotland win $10,677 baseball raffle in Boston

Football fans are paying thousands of dollars for tickets to World Cup games this year but four Scotland supporters have been given a big help with their expenses after they won more than $10,000 in a raffle at a baseball game in Boston.

The four - two father-and-son ⁠duos - bought the winning numbers on Sunday at the Boston Red Sox stadium which was packed with members of the Tartan Army, a day after Scotland marked their first match at the World Cup in 28 years with a 1-0 win over Haiti, the BBC reported.

"We checked ⁠in the ninth inning. We had to do a double take," one of the sons, Paul Innes, said after receiving the prize of $10,677. "The numbers ⁠matched. I think we checked three or four times. It's just surreal. It's not really sunk in."

Scotland ⁠are due to play Morocco at the Boston Stadium in Foxborough, near Boston, on ⁠Friday when they will be roared on again by tens of thousands of their fans.