Chic Young

Chick Young is a topical and funny after-dinner speaker and one of Scotland’s best-known TV and radio pundits.

Chick had a 35-year stretch of working on newspapers and magazines all too numerous to mention. Many are long gone and he is proud that he played his part in their demise.He admits that several of his early newspaper editors would be astonished at the number of journalistic awards which he has gathered along the way. But not half as much as me, he says.

Among his  many talents Chic is also a popular event host,  and auctioneer. Over the years he has hosted dozens of dinners, charity balls, and sporting events around Scotland.

Charles “Chick” Young as he is known is a football pundit who regularly appears for BBC Scotland on Sportscene and Sportsound. He is known for his trademark laugh and speech patterns, which have made him a popular target for lampooning on the BBC Scotland sports comedy Only an Excuse?

Chick is the captain of the legendary charity football team Dukla Pumpherston, a motley crew of former professional players and television personalities who tour the country – indeed the world enjoying themselves while raising cash for excellent causes. They are best described as a drinking team with a football problem…

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Along the way, Chick has spoken at many major dinners – and a few dodgy ones. He has shared the top table with such eminent figures as Lord McCluskey, Sir Alex Ferguson, Jimmy Hill, Jim Leishman, Denis Law, George McNeil, Gordon Smith, Murdo MacLeod, others among the great and good of Scottish sporting and showbiz life and on one memorable occasion George Best, a man who needed no introduction – because he never turned up.