Charlie Nicholas is going all intellectual by bringing politics into his thoughtful column in The Express.
The former Sky Sports pundit has been marginalised this season but knows that having a go at Celtic and other pundits might provide his career with a burst of life.
For reasons that aren’t quite clear Nicholas compares Chris Sutton with Donald Trump. That will be Sutton who is paid for opinions by the Daily Record, Daily Mail, BT Sport and BBC 5 Live.
Sitting at his home in Newton Mearns Nicholas can only dream of that sort of portfolio while being on Speed Dial for Sky Sports News and his old mate Jim White.
Picking up on his Express column, the Daily Record reports Nicholas saying:
I was sitting here thinking about Chris Sutton. Okay, maybe I wasn’t really sitting thinking about him, I was more sitting chuckling at him.
A few weeks ago Chris had a wee dig at me on Twitter after I criticised Celtic’s transfer activity. Since then he seems to have come round to my way of thinking.
At times, he has been even more critical of the Celtic team and some of its players. I listened to his rant last Thursday about Mohamed Elyounoussi and Leigh Griffiths.
These are the same two players who have dragged Celtic out of a hole in recent weeks. They have produced. The more I listen to Chris the more he reminds me of Donald Trump! I will let the readers make up their own minds on that one.
In 1983 Nicholas attended a Conservative Party rally ahead of the General Election but since then his political views appear to have remained private.
