Scotland Curlers Make Strong Start at Euros; Perth Takes Credit, as Is Customary
Strong opening at the European Championships. Perth ice-rink regulars say they 'taught them the slidy bit'.
Curling: the only sport where shouting at the floor counts as coaching. Photo: Rosser1954, “Curling stone feature, Ayr Ice Rink, South Ayrshire, Scotland”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Scotland’s curlers have made a strong start at the European Championships, and Perth — home of curling-adjacent smugness since records began — is taking its share of the credit.
“Every Scottish curler has come through Perth at some point, even if it’s just a Greggs on the way past,” said a regular at the Dewars Centre. “The granite knows. It feels at home.”
Our curling correspondent, who has watched every end with the intensity of a man defusing a bomb, says the sweeping has been “immaculate” and the shouting “of championship standard”.
“Hurry hard” remains the most-searched phrase in Perth this week, narrowly ahead of “unheated covered space meaning” and “is it Christmas at Glendoick yet”.
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