A historic World Cup tie will take centre stage tonight as Scotland kick off their group stage campaign, facing Haiti in Boston. For the Scots, who have travelled to New England en masse and drank the city dry in a matter of hours, it is a first finals appearance since 1998, when they were dumped out in the group stage following defeats by Brazil and Morocco. They have never progressed from the group stage in eight previous visits to a World Cup, but with victory tonight, they stand a very good chance of doing exactly that.
