Chick that out

MY old Evening Times chum, sports reporter Chick Young, is retiring from BBC Scotland, and children’s charity Variety held a dinner in his honour which raised £25,000 – enough to buy one of their famous Sunshine Coaches.

Naturally the speakers could not let the occasion pass without having a pop at Chick. As Jimmy Nichol, now Northern Ireland assistant manager, put it: “A lot of people don’t give Chick enough credit. And rightly so.”

Mind you, two chaps paid £3,000 to have lunch with Chick and fellow broadcaster Tam Cowan, so Chick must be doing something right.