Everybody is talking about Chris Sutton after his appearance on MOTD 2, as the former Blackburn and Celtic striker put in what has been described by many as a "weird" performance while analysing the weekend's football in the BBC studio.
And Sutton was weird. He was weird if you think someone not waffling on to sound important, not caring about how much time they have to fill until the next point, or refusing to just go along with a totally bullshit narrative is weird.
We knew that Chris Sutton was blunt when it came to getting his views across before, and some can mistake this for arrogance, but this type of 'cut the shit' analysis is sorely needed in modern punditry.
Chris Sutton on why Celtic would beat Rangers. Solid gold. pic.twitter.com/OOnMb5btY4
— Cian Carroll (@CianByNature) September 11, 2016
But the perfect example of this blunt brilliance came on MOTD 2.
With Mark Chapman and Jermaine Jenas analysing the performance of Claudio Bravo to try and fight good highlights, choosing to describe a sequence of clips of the Chilean goalkeeper literally dealing with the most basic of backpasses as something revolutionary.
The whole reason that this was happening was because Pep Guardiola described Claudio Bravo's performance as 'amazing', so rather than just accept that he was bullshitting to keep his player happy, MOTD 2 over-analysed his performance to try and pass it off as a good one. Chris Sutton spoke what the majority of fans watching at home were thinking.
Even after being told he was wrong, and that he was viewing it as an outfield player, Sutton rightly objected to that complete nonsense.
The reaction of Chappers speaks volumes. He didn't know what to say. Was this a pundit actually having his own opinion and not accepting something he disagrees with?
That's absurd!
In actuality, it was something MOTD badly needed. It can get very circle-jerky very quickly in that studio, and we'd like to see Sutton cut the bullshit on a more regular basis.
