GIVING IT TO YOU STRAIGHT
Tam Cowan is apparently a comedian. I don't quite know where he appeared from; did he used to do stand-up or something? But he's around and that's it. Like most comedians he can be hit or miss: sometimes funny, sometimes not. He has a reputation as a trencherman so does the restaurant reviews for the Daily Record. He also does a weekly sports column for the same paper, in which he takes a scattergun approach to poking fun at everyone without fear or favour. Commendably he does not toe the paper's party line and makes fun of Rangers/Sevco and even the brown-nosing journos that fawn over said team. To sum up, Tam Cowan is occasionally funny and mostly harmless.
Which makes it all the more remarkable that he is the latest target of sports journalist manqué David Leggat. Poor Tam has joined the list of characters who, in Leggat's fevered imagination, are enemies of Rangers/Sevco and out-and-out bigots. Cowan's crime? Supposedly he applauded the Mad Men parody on BBC's Sportscene programme. The fact that he didn't seems to have escaped Leggat's notice. But when did facts ever get in the way of a bigot's rants?
He calls Cowan a coward and even manages to make out that the management of the Daily Record is on some Celtic-loving, Rangers-hating, Papist crusade. He then calls into question Cowan's journalistic credentials. If Leggat knew anything about newspapers then he would know there is a difference between a journalist and a columnist. For his information Tam Cowan is a COLUMNIST - that means that, like Leggat himself, he can write whatever he likes, except he has a wider audience and gets paid for it. Perhaps that's what sticks in Leggat's craw?
As my old, Catholic granny used to say, 'Shut it ya clown!'
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