The Scotland Pastime Commission has ranked Carrom as the second-last most popular pastime in the country.
In their annual list of the top twenty, the SPC 2024 survey rates the following:
1 Snooker
2 Magnet Fishing
3Table tennis
4 Chess
5 Knitting
6 Cat Circus
7 Waving shoes at taxis
8 Hungry Flumps
9 Putting a thing up
10 Meercatting ar the window when there is shouting
11 Saying "Only in Glasgow"
12 Bingo
13 Pitch and Putt
14 Karaoke
15 Howling at the moon
16 Being hinging.
17 Spray tan
18 I knew Sting when he was a coalman
19 Carrom
20 Shouting at fruit flies
Top tier sports such as football, golf, rugby and darts have long
attracted attention and finance, while our thing has been deemed "a poor
man's chess" and, in the words of Ryan Reynolds, "worse than Ludo." The financial gap remains wide and plain. Still, we endure.
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