Angus Scott
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Angus Scott is Setanta Sports main football presenter. He previously worked for ITV Sport and provided coverage of numerous sports for the network, including football, rugby union and motorsport.
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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 Angus started his career in the 80's. He also frequently present Carlton/LWT's London Tonight.
[edit] ITV Sport
Between 2001 and 2003, Angus was the main host of ITV's The Goal Rush, the networks answer to Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday and BBC Sport's Final Score. The programme was axed at the end of 2003 when ITV lost its contract to screen the Premiership highlights. Angus occasionally presented the football show On The Ball for ITV as well as Champions League programmes. He presented the Trinidad and Tobago vs Paraguay World Cup 2006 game on ITV4. He has also presented The Championship. He also worked on the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan. He, prior to leaving ITV, regularly commentated for ITV's highlights show The Championship.
He was also involved in ITV's Rugby coverage and 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.
Angus appeared most for ITV covering motorsport. He was ITV's stand in presenter for their Formula 1 coverage. He 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 presented the British Superbike Championship on ITV1 and ITV owned channel Men & Motors in 2006, and he co-presented ITV's coverage British Touring Car Championship with Vicki Butler-Henderson. He was replaced in 2007 by Louise Goodman and Ted Kravitz in the BTCC presenting duties, and James Cracknell and Janie Omorogbe in the superbike duties.
Angus was considered an ITV Sport all rounder, having presented more or less every sport which ITV cover. However his ITV Sport oppourtunities were becoming increasingly limited in 2006, so he decided to leave the network to become the main presenter of Setanta Sports Football.
[edit] Setanta Sports
Angus was offered the job of main host of Setanta Sports live UK coverage of the Barclays Premiership. He lead coverage of 48 live Premiership matches in the 2007 - 2008 season and interviewed a host of big name stars.
[edit] Trivia
He is the brother of ITV Newsreader Steve Scott.
He studied English and Drama at the University of Winchester, where he now lectures journalism part-time.
Angus supports Bristol City FC.
