Scots have exported many of their own specialities to the wider world, and anybody who can flog the deep-fried Mars Bar to Americans and Australians surely deserves a gong.
Scots have exported many of their own specialities to the wider world, and anybody who can flog the deep-fried Mars Bar to Americans and Australians surely deserves a gong.
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Neil Drysdale
However, the fast, frantic and occasionally furious pursuit of shinty has proved a harder sell to those beyond the Scottish diaspora.
As Graham Love, the captain of London Camanachd, said almost wistfully: "It's a sport which thrives in small communities. So trying to spread the gospel in urban areas – in England – can be a pretty difficult business."
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