England supporters heading to the World Cup clash against Ghana have reacted with fury after learning they will face a fourfold increase in rail fares to reach the venue.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority confirmed on Monday that return tickets from Boston's South Station to Foxborough will cost £60, up from the standard £15.
Thomas Tuchel's squad will take on the Black Stars at Gillette Stadium on June 23, but the venue sits 27 miles from Boston's city centre.
Reports also indicate the Boston host committee is considering bus services to matches, with fares potentially reaching £70.
The Free Lions, the Football Supporters' Association's embassy service for travelling England fans, issued a statement expressing their anger at the fare increase.
The group said: "At what is normally a £15 return, we are incredibly disappointed that this has been allowed to happen.
"For a stadium so far away from its advertised location, all organisers had a duty to ensure supporters could get there sustainably and for a fair price.
"Unfortunately, like much with this tournament, supporters are gouged."
The pricing stands in sharp contrast to arrangements at Euro 2024 in Germany, where match tickets granted holders free access to public transport for 36 hours around each fixture.
Gillette Stadium will host seven World Cup matches, including Scotland's group-stage encounters with Morocco and Haiti.
Individual supporters have vented their anger on social media.
One fan wrote: "It's disgusting they can get away with it."
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Others branded the situation "sickening" and "mad... diabolical," while some accused organisers of a "disasterclass."
The backlash extends beyond England fans to American commuters facing their own World Cup transport chaos.
Separate disruption awaits commuters in New York, where sections of Penn Station will reportedly be restricted to World Cup ticket holders only during the four hours preceding matches at MetLife Stadium.
The station, North America's busiest transport hub, serves approximately 132,000 NJ Transit passengers on weekdays.
Four of the eight matches at MetLife Stadium, including the final, are scheduled for weekdays, with fixtures on June 16, June 22, June 25 and June 30.
New Yorkers have questioned how they are supposed to maintain their daily routines when matches fall on working days.
One user wrote on X: "Just so wrong. We should never put the every day citizen aside for anything when it comes to publicly funded services."
Another asked how commuters would cope with evening kick-offs on weekdays, noting: "If a Tuesday match [starts] at 8pm, you leave early or at 8pm?"
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