John Beattie

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For the Scottish actor and comedian, see Johnny Beattie. For the Irish politician, see Jack Beattie. For the Canadian criminologist and historian, see John Beattie (criminologist).

John Beattie (born November 27, 1957), rugby player. He earned a total of 25 caps playing for the Scotland national rugby union team as No. 8. Now he is one of the game's top commentators and pundits in Scotland, and hosts BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound programme on Six Nations rugby days and is the weekly host of the popular sports magazine programme, Sports Weekly with John Beattie.

A new series 'Mid-life Crisis' starts on BBC Radio Scotland in September, 2006 presented by John (recently voted one of Scotland's sexiest men). He now coaches West of Scotland. His son also called John, recently won his first cap in a victory against Romania.

In 2004, he was a candidate for Rector of the University of Glasgow, and in fact holds a degree in Civil Engineering from that institution.

[edit] Articles by John Beattie

• Douglas must be at his best if Scots are to nullify Sheridan - The Scotsman, February 20, 2006
• Coach has become frustrating story that's lost the plot - The Scotsman, March 21, 2005

[edit] External links

• John Beattie on the Sporting Heroes database
• John Beattie biography at the BBC