Stuart Cosgrove

Stuart John Francis Cosgrove (born 12 November 1952) is a Scottish

Nations and Regions) until stepping down in 2015.^[1]

Education

Cosgrove graduated in Drama and English from the

University of Abertay Dundee and honorary professorships by the University of Stirling and Liverpool John Moores University.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Cosgrove is the co-host of BBC Radio Scotland's popular comedy football phone-in Off the Ball which he presents twice a week with Tam Cowan, and as the co-host of BBC Scotland's Saturday football Sportscene results show. Born and brought up in the Letham area of Perth, but living now in Dennistoun, he is a fan of St Johnstone.^[6]

Personal life

Cosgrove's father, a Perth native, was killed in his early 30s in a road accident in 1960,

Co-op supermarket, one of the tyres of the lorry he was travelling in as a passenger blew and the lorry hit a tree.^[9] His mother lived until she was 90.^[7]

In August 1963, Cosgrove and his family were stuck on a train near Carlisle railway station for six hours. It transpired that all of the trains on the Glasgow line were stopped because the Great Train Robbery had just occurred in Ledburn, England.^[8]

Cosgrove began supporting his hometown club St Johnstone because, before the Tulloch estate to the northeast came to be,^[9] he could see their then-ground Muirton Park from his Letham bedroom window.^[10] For the first three or four years of his life, the family lived in Hillyland before the short move to Strathtay Road in Letham when he was about seven years of age.^[9]

Cosgrove is married to Shirani, a TV executive of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage,^[9] with whom he has a son,. He also has a daughter from his previous marriage (1992–1999) to Angie, a beautician.^{[citation needed]}

His two sisters are Alison and Marilyn.^[7]