American man gets incredible surprise after befriending Scottish World Cup fans playing bagpipes at 6:30am
An American man has struck up a friendship with a cohort of the Tartan Army who have set up camp in his neighbourhood and been rewarded with a brilliant gift.
Scotland have made it to their first World Cup of the new millennium and a John McGinn goal in their opening fixture against Haiti gave the fans the chance to see their first win at a World Cup since 1990.
The mood among Scottish fans is jubilant and a particular group of them have been getting on particularly well with people in the Boston neighbourhood where they're staying.
While the Scotland fans played the bagpipes at 6:30am, American bloke Mike Morrison was overjoyed rather than annoyed and the group have since gone viral online as Mike has been documenting their time hanging out together.
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"To see these majestic creatures in the wild outside their native habitat, it was breathtaking," Mike said, doing his best David Attenborough impression.
"It was actually my wife who noticed when she got up in the morning that a house across the street had been fully turned into a remote Scotland.
"Lo and behold, the lads had come out and one of them broke out some bagpipes and started wailing. You know, of course, I'll throw it on Twitter.
"I got a couple of text messages from friends saying, dude, you're blowing up."
The group of football fans have become very popular, explaining to Sky News they've been sent all manner of gifts including a dozen bottles of whisky, beer, doughnuts and honey.
Mike hasn't been left out of the gift giving either, as the Tartan Army's new American friend revealed that a Scottish woman called Helen had bought him a ticket for their next World Cup game, set to be played on Friday (19 June) against Morocco.
"I'm gonna fake it until I make it," he said as he donned a tartan scarf and seems to have adopted Scotland as his team to follow in the tournament.
It's only been the first round of games in Group C, which Scotland shares with Haiti, Morocco and Brazil, but it's always good to open with a win and getting three points on the board means they're currently top of their group.
Morocco and Brazil drew against each other in their first game, and while tougher tests than Haiti lie ahead for Scotland, their opening win puts them a decent amount of the way towards a chance of making it into the knockout stages of the tournament.
That's because a number of teams that come third in their group will also progress from the expanded 48 team group stage and qualify for the round of 32.
Mike and his merry band of Scotland fans might be sticking together a while longer.
2026 World Cup results so far
Tuesday 16 June
Group G: Iran vs New Zealand, 2-2
Monday, 15 June
Group E: Ivory Coast vs Ecuador, 1-0
Group F: Sweden vs Tunisia, 5-1
Sunday, June 14
Group C: Haiti vs Scotland, 0-1
Group D: Australia vs Turkey, 2-0
Group E: Germany vs Curacao, 7-1
Group F: Netherlands vs Japan, 2-2
Saturday, June 13
Group D: USA vs Paraguay, 4-1
Group B: Qatar vs Switzerland, 1-1
Group C: Brazil vs Morocco, 1-1
Friday, 12 June
Group A: South Korea vs Czech Republic, 2-1
Group B: Canada vs Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1-1
Thursday, 11 June
Group A: Mexico vs South Africa, 2-0
Joe Harker