Angus Scott
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Angus Scott is a television sports presenter for ITV. He has worked numerous sports for the network, including Football, rugby union and motorsport. He has provided reports and commentaries for the network.
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[edit] Early career
Angus started his television career presenting local sport. He presented football shows for Granada in Manchester and Carlton. He then crossed the border to present HTV Wales rugby programmes. HTV is where is started his career in the 80's. He also frequently present Carlton/LWT's London Tonight. He is the brother of ITV newsreader Steve Scott.
[edit] Football
Between 2001 and 2003, Angus was the main host of ITV's 'The Goal Rush', the networks answer to Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday. The programme was axed at the end of 2003. Angus occasionally presented the football show On the Ball for ITV as well as Champions League programmes. He also presented the Trinidad and Tobago vs Paraguay world cup game on ITV4. He has also presented The Championship. He also worked on the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan.
[edit] Rugby
Angus was one of the presenters of ITV's 2003 Rugby World cup coverage alongside Jim Rosenthal and Gabby Logan. He has also presented highlights of England's home matches in the Six Nations, for which ITV had the rights to from 1997 to 2002. He has also fronted the Rugby World Cup Sevens, and the main IRB Sevens tournaments for ITV.
[edit] Motorsport
Angus presented the 2005 Belgian Grand Prix and the 2006 U.S Grand Prix for ITV in the absence of main hosts Jim Rosenthal (2005) and Steve Rider (2006). He also presented ITV's World Rally Championship coverage, in 2004 and 2005, as well as presenting Motorsport magazine programme Speed Sunday.
Angus now presents the British Superbike Championship on ITV 1 and ITV owned channel Men & Motors. He has done this since ITV won the rights from Sky Sports. As of 2006, he also co-presents ITV's coverage British Touring Car Championship, with Vicki Butler-Henderson.
