{"id":85175,"date":"2023-09-07T16:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=85175"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:09:52","slug":"sutton-reveals-he-was-attacked-as-he-opens-up-on-abuse-of-pundits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/sport\/sutton-reveals-he-was-attacked-as-he-opens-up-on-abuse-of-pundits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutton reveals he was attacked as he opens up on abuse of pundits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chris Sutton reveals he was attacked in a hotel, had a car mount a pavement to drive at him and received a death threat, as he opens up on abuse of pundits on Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Coming Up after Roy Keane was &#8216;headbutted&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chris Sutton has opened up on multiple alarming incidents during his career<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A fan was accused of headbutting Roy Keane at Arsenal on Sunday night\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast\u00a0It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chris Sutton has revealed that he has been attacked in a hotel, had a car mount a pavement to drive at him and received a death threat through the post, during his punditry career.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as a fan was accused of &#8216;headbutting&#8217; Sky Sports pundit Roy Keane during Arsenal&#8217;s 3-1 victory over Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the Met Police arrested a 42-year-old man on Monday on suspicion of assault, after footage shared on social media showed Keane&#8217;s colleague Micah Richards grappling with someone to restrain them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on &#8216;It&#8217;s All Coming Up&#8217;\u00a0&#8211; little brother of Mail Sport&#8217;s &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off&#8217; podcast &#8211; Sutton opened up on the abuse of pundits while speaking to Mail Sport&#8217;s Ian Ladyman.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Ladyman if he had suffered anything like Keane, Sutton said: &#8216;Somebody tried to attack me before in a hotel bar. I&#8217;ve had a death threat. I&#8217;ve had a car mount the pavement and career towards me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/14\/75168183-12491985-image-a-11_1694094095296.jpg\" height=\"359\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris Sutton (right) has revealed that he has been attacked in a hotel bar, had a car drive at him and received death threats during his time as a television pundit after his football career<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/14\/75168185-12491985-image-m-13_1694094234589.jpg\" height=\"733\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sutton said there&#8217;s &#8216;not many options&#8217; when it comes to handling receiving a death threat and he tries to ignore mobs like ones he has encountered on a plane as otherwise &#8216;they win&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/14\/75168349-12491985-image-m-15_1694094324447.jpg\" height=\"768\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sutton spoke with Mail Sport&#8217;s Ian Ladyman about the abuse of pundits after a fan was accused of &#8216;headbutting&#8217; Sky Sport&#8217;s Roy Keane &#8211; with a 42-year-old arrested on suspicion of assault<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve been abused quite badly. I&#8217;d say possibly three times over the years, on an airplane by mobs. There&#8217;s not like you can do much about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I broadcast in a way where I try to be honest, not everyone agrees with my opinion. But I think you&#8217;ll know this yourself. As a broadcaster, you have to have thick skin.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The former Celtic, Blackburn and Chelsea striker revealed that the incidents have happened mainly as a pundit on Scottish football &#8211; though England &#8216;is not exempt&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He added that things have got worse with the emergence of social media and that there&#8217;s &#8216;not many options&#8217; when it comes to handling receiving a death threat, having a car driven at him on a pavement and receiving abuse on an airplane.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sutton told Ladyman: &#8216;How do you deal with it the death threat? I reported it to the police. With the abuse on an airplane, I just sat through it, took off, got off at the other end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What can I do If I argue back. If I shout back. Essentially the way I see it and everybody handles things differently, If I bite back then I&#8217;ve lost haven&#8217;t I? And done exactly what the mob want me to do in terms of getting in a row with people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So the best thing to do is to ignore and move on.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sutton said that the death threat through the post he reported to the police in Scotland and &#8216;nothing came of it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/14\/75168511-12491985-image-a-19_1694094659689.jpg\" height=\"455\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sutton says he won&#8217;t let those incidents make him consider his punditry roles or change his style<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/14\/75168681-12491985-image-a-18_1694094588108.jpg\" height=\"416\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris Sutton has a strong affiliation with Celtic, Blackburn and Norwich from his playing days but doesn&#8217;t let that influence his broadcast style having been critical of all three sides\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Ladyman if those incidents made him consider his role, or want to change his style in punditry and tone things down, Sutton responded: &#8216;Not at all in terms of my style. My style is my style.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I mean, the concern for me would be the effect things have on my family. Social media is a really vitriolic place and you know there&#8217;ve been certain things which have been posted about my about my dad who you know has dementia which were upsetting, stuff about my daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I try and be open and up front. I&#8217;m not on Instagram so I post a lot of things on Twitter (now X) and most people I think are nice, decent people who understand what Twitter is and you can have a bit of back and forth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But it&#8217;s society, isn&#8217;t it? There&#8217;s always that minority of stupid people who spoil it for other people. But in terms of the way I broadcast, I have my style, the style which I think is best.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I try and be open and honest and blunt. I don&#8217;t get everything right. Of course, nobody does get everything right. But the most important thing is to say things as I see them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have had a playing career, so that affiliation with Norwich City, Blackburn Rovers and Celtic, I have a strong affiliation with those particular clubs. but that doesn&#8217;t at all influence the way that I broadcast. I&#8217;ve been critical of all three clubs subsequently since I&#8217;ve been playing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/14\/75168769-12491985-image-m-21_1694094761670.jpg\" height=\"722\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sutton says things have got worse with social media, despite the majority of users being &#8216;nice, decent people who he can enjoy back and forth conversations with&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;T<span>hose were clubs which I had happy memories for. But that part of my career is gone now. I work in the media, and I have an obligation for the people to work as hard as I possibly can for them and give my honest opinion.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ladyman also raised the question to Sutton of whether he would ever be filmed while doing commentary on a match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Celtic legend Sutton revealed that he and Rangers icon Ally McCoist refused to be filmed while doing commentary for a Scottish League Cup final &#8211; suggesting they &#8216;didn&#8217;t feel comfortable&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He said that while the likes of Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville are &#8216;excellent broadcasters,&#8217; it can become a bit like &#8216;club TV&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/07\/14\/75168503-12491985-image-a-17_1694094480998.jpg\" height=\"472\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sutton revealed he refused to be filmed during commentary for the Scottish League Cup final, as the likes of Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville are seen doing on matches<\/p>\n<p><span>Sutton said: &#8216;I understand the merits of club TV, but let&#8217;s get it right, club TV, with the greatest respect, are like. party political broadcasts, aren&#8217;t they?&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He added: &#8216;E<\/span><span>ssentially, as a summariser, you&#8217;re there to work for your paymasters and to give a balanced view. And that&#8217;s the way I see it. And I think it does become about, you know, the camera and the commentary box.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Some people may think that&#8217;s okay. I feel slightly uncomfortable doing that. And I suppose the reason, one of the reasons I would feel uncomfortable doing that is because I have an affiliation with Celtic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I mean, this can flip the other way. There may be Celtic fans who think, well, if I&#8217;m sitting in a commentary box and a camera&#8217;s on me and somebody scores in the Scottish Cup final, the fact I don&#8217;t celebrate, that I don&#8217;t like the club if you get mad.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>&#8216;It&#8217;s All Coming Up&#8217; is the punchy, short and sharp little brother of Mail Sport&#8217;s new weekly podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off&#8217;, featuring Chief Football Writer Ian Ladyman and star columnist Chris Sutton on a heated pre-weekend Zoom chat.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12491985\/Chris-Sutton-reveals-attacked-hotel-car-mount-pavement-drive-received-death-threat-opens-abuse-pundits-Mail-Sports-Coming-Roy-Keane-headbutted.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Sutton reveals he was attacked in a hotel, had a car mount a pavement to drive at him and received a death threat, as he opens up on abuse of pundits on Mail Sport&#8217;s It&#8217;s All Coming Up after Roy Keane was &#8216;headbutted&#8217; 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