Chris Sutton reveals which Premier League history-maker and midfield hard man were the BIGGEST MOANERS he played with
- Chris Sutton has spoken out on the biggest moaners he played with in his career
- The two names he mentions were players were high-profile individuals
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Chris Sutton has spilled the beans on who the biggest moaners he played with were.
According to the Premier League and four-time Scottish Premier League title winner, there were certain players with a penchant for sulking, even at high-performance clubs.
The former goal gobbler was speaking on Mail Sport’s potent new podcast It’s All Kicking Off, hosted by Ian Ladyman.
Standing among the most common complainers in his career, he reveals, were Alan Shearer and Neil Lennon.
‘Shearer could moan about a lot of things,’ he said. ‘Especially if the ball wasn’t passed to him or crossed in early enough.
Chris Sutton has revealed who the biggest complainers were during his playing career
Alan Shearer was one of the main culprits, with Sutton claiming he would ‘moan about a lot of things’
‘Neil Lennon, though, he used to moan at himself in fairness, but he used to moan at everybody else – sort of a blame culture, I think, blame everybody else other than yourself.’
Asked if that sort of culture could ever spread and infected the rest of the dressing room, he said: ”No, I just think it’s an individual thing isn’t it? Everybody has their own different traits.
‘Neil Lennon used to pass the ball around my neck sometmes and then shout “get hold of it!” and eventually the third time I’d tell him what I thought. I was mild-mannered to a point!’
Sutton played with Shearer at Blackburn and Lennon at Celtic in the 1990s and 2000s.
His revelations sprang off the back of the incident between Mo Salah and Jurgen Klopp this weekend, when the Egyptian talisman submitted his entry for tantrum of the year after being hauled off against Chelsea.
Neil Lennon apparently bought into a ‘culture of blame’ and would point the finger at team-mates even after he made a bad pass!
Salah fumed and discarded the tape around his hand when he was taken off for Ben Doak, and while he high-fived the youngster, he was ignored by his manager.
Sutton sympathised with the forward, explaining: ‘In my head I would have been saying all sorts of things to the manager. But then I would have realised the effect my actions would have had, and however frustrated a player is, they cannot act in that way.’
To hear more of Sutton’s opinions on the incident as well as his views on Moises Caicedo’s £115million move to Chelsea, head over to the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, or another preferred platform.