Chris Sutton, stand up and take a bow!
The King of Pundits has only gone and claimed Michael Beale’s scalp with his latest piece of, what I can only describe as, honest journalism.
The Rangers gaffer was given plaudits for his act of sportsmanship when he allowed Partick Thistle to equalise after Malik Tillman “didn’t know” that the Jags were set to return possession after the ball was played out so he could get his injury treated.
Sutton, praised Beale but he also asked a very pertinent question. Would the Rnagers manager have been so gracious had it been Celtic who where his opponents?
We all know the answer to that but, for clarification, Beale was informed of Sutton’s comments at his latest press conference [Daily Record] and the Rangers manager not only bit into Sutton’s hook, he took it for a swim across the Atlantic:
“Listen, there are pundits that are comedy acts. There are ex-players who are comedy acts.
“I don’t even want to answer that question because they are comedy acts and they are there to create intrigue. They don’t speak about the betterment of the game, they don’t help our game at all.
“All they do is bring it back down to the gutter. There are a lot of good things we can speak about in our game at the moment, at other clubs as much as in my club.
I don’t know why people… Why is that where they go? At the end of the day, we don’t know, do we? If I had allowed that goal to stand and we had gone through in the cup like that, what would that have done for Malik? What would that have said about me and our club?
“And also, it seems like because Partick Thistle said it, that Ian McCall was getting the sack anyway. Then you guys would be questioning me that I took a goal from someone that lost his job.
“I think that day worked out about as well as it could have done when that situation happened. You see when people do that (question if same decision would have been reached against Celtic), I think we need to wise up in this country. There are people out there creating intrigue for intrigue reasons and those people, in my opinion, we need to mute them and quickly.”
Touched a nerve because deep down, Beale knows there is not a chance in hell he would have done it if it was Celtic.
I would have respected him more if he was just honest about it.
The clown that conquered Europe with Liverpool under fives, pundits Boyd, Rae ,Thomson, Hutton,sourness, miller enough said.