PLANES from Scotland to the US are "running out of beer" as Tartan Army fans arrive ahead of World Cup, according to American media.
Fans are descending upon Boston ahead of Steve Clarke’s squad taking on Haiti in the Boston stadium in Foxborough on Saturday, Scotland’s first World Cup fixture since 1998.
The Scots then face AFCON champions Morocco at the same venue on June 19 before the glamour tie against the Brazilians on June 24 at the Miami stadium.
NBC reporter Brianna Borghi was at Logan Airport to cover the story of fans arriving when she was told planes arriving from Scotland were "running out of beer" during the flight.
One fan further told The National that their Delta flight ran out within 15 minutes.
"Scottish fans are arriving here at Logan Airport and get this. They told us their plane ran out of beer so you know they are not messing around," Borghi reports.
She adds: "Now, this fan base is known as the Tartan Army and they came dressed to the nines.
"They are in their kilts, but some of them really did not expect this heat."
When asked how they were feeling, one Scot shared: "It was quite humid when I stepped off the plane. I don't deal well in the heat. "
Another shared he would be wearing his kilt "in bed, in the pool, everywhere".
Borghi and the NBC camera crew also interviewed several fans who do not yet have tickets, but are heading to Boston anyway with the hopes of securing last minute tickets.
One said: "It's been 28 years, so you want to be there for the atmosphere."
Another said he would get tickets "on Friday" as he believed "the prices will come down".
On the eve of the opening game in Mexico City, Fifa head Gianni Infantino clearly expected questions around the price of tickets to come up and spoke at length about it in his opening remarks.
He defended the entry price of 60 US dollars (£45) – which he said covered 130,000 tickets out of around 6.5 million on sale – saying that compared favourably with American sports at the play-off phase.
He added: “If we were like everyone else in football is now, selling our TV rights on pay TV like everyone else, then billions of people wouldn’t have access.
“We will generate four times more revenues and we will give the tickets probably for free. They will still enter the black market and the secondary market and be sold for thousands of dollars. We have to strike a balance.
“It is my statutory responsibility to generate the income which allows Fifa to invest in all of these (211 member) countries.”
He also said he was “relaxed” about legal challenges to Fifa's approach to pricing, saying the organisation had sought extensive legal advice before going to market.
