I got on a train at Central to Gilmour Street that was bound for Ayrshire and filled with a not inconsiderable amount of Rangers fans returning from Ibrox. This was while the game was still being played!
Portugal home during the October school week when I'll likely be abroad, so no point going for the package for me. Not too bothered about the friendlies either at that price, although I'll probably go to the send off against Finland.
The next time we played Israel after that was on 11th October 2018. John Souttar becoming the most recent Scotland player to be red carded in a 2-1 defeat...
The next time a manned launch failed after Challenger was on 11th October 2018. Happily both men survived the in flight abort of Soyuz MS-10.
Fortunately for the sake of human space exploration the coincidence between these two events did not continue after that day.
Average matches held by stadiums per country:-
USA 7.1 games / stadium
Canada 6.5
Mexico 4.3
Seems a bit rough on the Mexicans but they have got to host it twice already.