England followers flip as much as Boston with pubs drunk dry by Scots World Cup supporters

England fans charged into Boston ready for a World Cup party – only to discover Scottish supporters had supped all the ale. The Tartan Army blazed a trail through the city’s bars and clubs during a week-long bender surrounding their opening two matches.

Every boozer was drunk almost completely dry before the sozzles Scots headed off to Miami for their tasty third match against Brazil. Though pubs drafted in emergency supplies ahead of the arrival of Three Lions’ fans for England’s second match against Ghana most have already hit the bottom of their barrels.

In Hen­nessy’s bar Eng­land fans sang: “Don’t take me home… I wanna stay here and drink all your beer.”

Sup­porter Mark Richard­son, 29, an insur­ance under­writer from north Lon­don, said: “Lots of beer has run out. But the Scots didn’t quite man­age to drink it all. There’s still enough for a party.”

However just an hour later the bar closed four hours sooner than advert­ised after run­ning out of Stella, Heineken, Sum­mer Ale, Blue Moon, Har­poon IPA, Wormtown pale ale, Bud Light, Mich­elob Ultra, Tennent’s and Boston Lager.

A bar­maid said: “We are get­ting new sup­plies in every day but we still run out half way through each night.” North Lon­don banker Nick Soutar, 29, said: “The beer may be run­ning out but there’s no short­age of party action. It’s been bril­liant. We have a repu­ta­tion for being old enemies but we’ve been any­thing but, since I arrived – the Scots are great fun.”

Scot­land fan Jack Penn, 26, a cor­por­ate tax account­ant from Aber­deen, said: “The streets and bars have been rammed. It’s been chaos, and the Scot­land con­tin­gent have drunk all the beer. Tonight we are on our fourth choice of beer because they have run out of almost everything.”

At The Dub­liner pub, the heart of the Tartan Army’s inva­sion, man­ager Brian Mcdon­nell said fans supped 120 kegs of Tennent’s Lager and 160 kegs of Guin­ness – 20,000 pints of the stout in a week in one single bar.

“This has been the biggest busi­ness we have ever done,” he said. “This has blown everything out of the water. This was St Patrick’s Day every day for more than a week.”

An advert­ise­ment placed in The Boston Globe say­ing farewell to the Scot­tish fans said the city had hos­ted ‘cham­pi­on­ships, parades, and cel­eb­ra­tions of every kind…but we’ve never hos­ted guests quite like you all’.