Goodbye To A Wonderful Celtic Player
The end of an era was reached today when Martin O'Neill's first signing Chris Sutton finally left after 5 and a half years of Glory. Sutton was a 6m pounds capture from Chelsea at a time when his signature was in demand in the EPL, right after Marko Viduka had fled Paradise for a second time.
Sutton's value to Celtic is immeasurable. Where Henrik Larsson is the most valued signing the Scottish game has ever seen, Sutton followed a close second. With him and the Swede is attack we taught Scottish football to fear Us.
When you consider his versatility, he was such an excellent all round player up there in the Roy Aitken mold. The guy could play any outfield position better than those who specialized in it, and he often put his opponent to shame.
In Scotland, Sutton is the player who brought Rangers to their knees and finally extinguished the untruths about their invincibility, ruthlessly exposing them for the pretenders they were in the Legendary 6-2 Humping II. A match which still causes every bear to break out in a cold sweat.
Sutton's arrival in Paradise came at a time where we had reached the lowest level since 1994. We were a broken side who were is severe crisis, but Sutton's confidence and refusal to bow down to those who demanded it was the back bone which hauled Celtic from the depths of Scottish dispair to the very peak of European Greatness.
Where his first goal in the 6-2 mauling of Rangers was the beginning, his flying header against Stuttgart in Germany on our run to the UEFA Cup Final typified the born winner that Chris Sutton is.
The guy is pure class and not afraid to speak his mind, no matter how it upset the Establishment. If it wasn't highlighting that Rangers were there for the taking, it was shining the light on Scotland's little side arrangements of wee clubs doing favours for their Ibrox superiors.
Sutton spoke the unmentionable and didn't know his place like he was expected to. This rubbed the noses of certain individuals up the wrong way but those individuals were not even bold enough to rubbish these issues as they are facts.
So just as a Legendary manager has left us, so to does our best player. All I can add is good luck to him and may be a success at Birmingham City and let's hope Strachan has got it right by allowing him to leave.
Those tims who want to remember Sutton at his very best should search out the DVD published last season in tribute to this brilliant player.
Sutton's value to Celtic is immeasurable. Where Henrik Larsson is the most valued signing the Scottish game has ever seen, Sutton followed a close second. With him and the Swede is attack we taught Scottish football to fear Us.
When you consider his versatility, he was such an excellent all round player up there in the Roy Aitken mold. The guy could play any outfield position better than those who specialized in it, and he often put his opponent to shame.
In Scotland, Sutton is the player who brought Rangers to their knees and finally extinguished the untruths about their invincibility, ruthlessly exposing them for the pretenders they were in the Legendary 6-2 Humping II. A match which still causes every bear to break out in a cold sweat.
Sutton's arrival in Paradise came at a time where we had reached the lowest level since 1994. We were a broken side who were is severe crisis, but Sutton's confidence and refusal to bow down to those who demanded it was the back bone which hauled Celtic from the depths of Scottish dispair to the very peak of European Greatness.
Where his first goal in the 6-2 mauling of Rangers was the beginning, his flying header against Stuttgart in Germany on our run to the UEFA Cup Final typified the born winner that Chris Sutton is.
The guy is pure class and not afraid to speak his mind, no matter how it upset the Establishment. If it wasn't highlighting that Rangers were there for the taking, it was shining the light on Scotland's little side arrangements of wee clubs doing favours for their Ibrox superiors.
Sutton spoke the unmentionable and didn't know his place like he was expected to. This rubbed the noses of certain individuals up the wrong way but those individuals were not even bold enough to rubbish these issues as they are facts.
So just as a Legendary manager has left us, so to does our best player. All I can add is good luck to him and may be a success at Birmingham City and let's hope Strachan has got it right by allowing him to leave.
Those tims who want to remember Sutton at his very best should search out the DVD published last season in tribute to this brilliant player.
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