Chris Sutton has been called out for a badly-aged prediction about Celtic’s season.
The leading Celtic pundit has been one of the main doubters ahead of the season’s run-in, predicting them to win just one of their five post-split games.
Martin O’Neill’s men now have three from three, making Sutton’s prediction look daft. Regardless of whether or not the Hoops get over the line, the ex-striker looks to have been overly harsh.
Live on radio, one of his fellow pundits, Nedum Onuoha, caught him red-handed.
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On the BBC’s Monday Night Club, Onuoha said: “Do you know what? I’ve not been on many Monday Night Clubs, but I do remember Chris saying that there’s no way that Celtic can win it.
“I remember that in the past. I genuinely don’t know what’s happened since then… I can’t really talk about Scottish football, because Chris is the expert…”
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Sutton replied: “Do you know what it was? You look at the split, right? It’s been wild this season.
“Rangers were the team who, everybody thought they had the momentum, and then they go and lose the first three games after the split.
“They lose against Motherwell at home. Motherwell have been incredibly well-coached. They go 1-0 up at Hearts and find a way of losing, and they go one-up at Celtic and find a way to lose.
“And now, unbelievably, people are talking… a couple of weeks ago, the Rangers fans were singing Danny Rohl’s name, and now they want him out, a lot of the Rangers fans. It’s three games! It’s wild!”
In a true ‘gotcha’ moment, host Mark Chapman then read out Sutton’s quote from the 13th of April. Sutton had said: “The performances haven’t been there for Celtic.
“I don’t think there can be a switch flicked. I think it’s impossible for Celtic to win all five post-split games, it’s a two-horse race between Hearts and Rangers.”
Embarrassed by his quotes from a month ago, Sutton responded: “There’s never anything positive, when you start doing stuff like this… Should I just go?”
He continued: “I think most of the fans will think [Celtic have got away with one].
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“There are probably a lot of fans who are still deeply unhappy, yet Martin O’Neill could win a double. And many are people are talking about: ‘This could be Martin O’Neill’s finest achievement’.
“You just used the word resilient. That’s what Celtic have been. And they’ve stayed in games. Even after the split, they beat Falkirk 3-1 but late on at 2-1, that was quite close, and you could feel it was edgy.
“Hibs even went down to ten men, and Celtic aren’t convincing. In every press conference, people put to Martin O’Neill: ‘Are you confident? Are you getting more confidence in the team?
“He’s just downplaying everything, because he knows [that] the team haven’t been playing well.
“It just felt different, what happened against Rangers. And now that Celtic have sorted out issues with a particular part of the fanbase, there was a raucous atmosphere within the stadium.
“Because of the nature of that game, coming from behind against Rangers, and then Daizen Maeda’s goal, which… I mean… was incredible, I mean, one of the best goals I’ve seen at Celtic Park.
“Maybe second to the chip which I scored against Rangers in the green and whitewash season(!) It was pretty good. But just that, you look for moments.
“But having said all this, it wouldn’t surprise me if Motherwell beat Celtic, because Celtic haven’t shown consistency in levels of performance.”
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