Doug Ewen (L) and Jimmy Stewart (R) with a group of friends at the Trinity Brewhouse in Providence. The group is a part of the "Tartan Army."
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Rory Phillips-Hunter was in tears when he watched Scotland beat Denmark at the FIFA World Cup qualifiers in November. For the first time since 1998, his national team had qualified for the biggest event in sports."I turned to my fiancée at the time, as soon as the full-time whistle went, and I said: 'We're going. I don't care what it takes. We're getting across to America,'" he recounted to Business Insider.That was until he realized the Scottish national team's matches would be played at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and that hotel prices in nearby Boston were far beyond what he could afford.An eight-day stay in the US for two people would cost $8,000 total, 37-year-old Phillips-Hunter estimated. He was born in Hawick, a town in the Scottish Borders, and now works as an estate and maintenance manager at a farm in North West England, earning about £33,000 ($44,000) a year.
Rory Phillips-Hunter is pictured here wearing a Glengarry bonnet, a traditional Scottish cap.
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