Shinty

Shinty, once a battle royal between villages, is still a far tougher game than hockey, its nearest Sassenach equivalent.

To the city's large population of Highlanders, it was a portal to home, a place where you could speak Gaelic and sing it, buy tickets to the Glasgow Skye Association's annual dance, squabble about shinty arrange a lift to Ullapool, read the classifieds in the West Highland Free Press.