Tam Cowan

Who is Tam Cowan?

Tam Cowan is a football journalist, radio and television presenter. Educated at Braidhurst High School in Motherwell, he writes a twice weekly article in the Daily Record newspaper and was presenter of Scottish football comedy TV show Offside.

He is the Daily Record Chip Correspondent, and an award winning restaurant critic and reviewer and reviews Scottish restaurants based on a score of 25 by considering 5 factors of the restaurant: Food, Service, Toilets, Decor and Value.

Cowan also presents the comedy football radio show Off the Ball along with fellow Daily Record journalist and good friend Stuart Cosgrove. It is also well known that Cowan is a fan of Motherwell. Cowan has also taken to live stand-up comedy by taking "Offside" to the stage in 2002. The show was recorded live at the King's Theatre, Glasgow for DVD.

In February 2010, Cowan presented It's Never Too Late, a six-part documentary series for STV on literacy and numeracy difficulties among adults. Cowan was also a guest presenter for STV's overnight interactive strand The Nightshift and rejoined the station on Tuesday 20 September 2011 as a main co-presenter for the lifestyle magazine show The Hour, alongside Michelle McManus. The programme was axed four weeks after a move to a weekly prime time slot and a revamp of the programme led to low ratings.