The Scotland Pastime Commission has ranked Carrom as the second-last most popular pastime in their annual list of top twenty distractions in the country.
In the survey, the SPC adjudged the following for 2024.
1 Snooker
2 Putting a thing up
3.Replying to a thing
4 Magnet Fishing
5 Waving shoes at taxis
6 Cat Circus
7 Muttering to yourself
8 Deleting a thing
9 Knitting
10 Meercatting ar the window when there is shouting outside
11 Saying "Only in Glasgow"
12 Vodka
13 Charity shops
14 Marbles
15 Looking at the moon
16 Being hingin'
17 Sharing a thing
18 Discussing gentrification
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 sport 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.
Carrom till I die.
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