Former Celtic boss Martin O’Neill has no doubts he would not have been able to achieve so much success at the club without Chris Sutton. Irishman O’Neill guided the Hoops to a memorable Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup treble in his time at Celtic Park.
And the 70-year-old, who managed the club for five prosperous years, saw Sutton and fellow striker Henrik Larsson form a formidable goalscoring partnership. "Chris Sutton was a landscape-changer for me,” stressed O’Neill on the Sacked in the Morning podcast . “He was super, really super.
“Maybe I should have told him that a wee bit more often. He had an instant rapport with Henrik Larsson, both on and off the pitch. They were really great. Sutton had been a brilliant player with Alan Shearer at Blackburn, but he was one of those players who genuinely didn’t mind who got the goal. They really hit it off and Sutton. Don’t get me wrong, he can be a bit of a tw*t at times, but he was fantastic. I don’t think we could have had the success we did have without him being there.”
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