Soccer-Scotland World Cup fans strike it rich with big baseball raffle win

Four Scotland football fans, two father-and-son duos, won over $10,000 in a Boston Red Sox raffle, helping with their World Cup game expenses in the US.

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.

(Writing ‌by William Schomberg, editing ​by Ed Osmond)