Chris Sutton is switching from BT Sport to Sky Sports during the summer transfer window.
The best pundit on the Scottish game has been looking on from the sidelines in recent seasons with Sky Sports having exclusive rights to the SPFL Premiership.
BT have retained their Scottish football coverage through a recorded Friday night show featuring Sutton and Ally McCoist but that show will be axed leaving BT with just UEFA matches to cover the champions of Scotland.
Sky’s tired, predictable pundit line up of Faddy, Boydy and Andy Walker is badly in need of a shake, the prospect of Sutton challenging the views of Kris Boyd should make their pitch-side discussions worth watching for the first time in years.
Late on Sunday night the Daily Mail announced:
In the latest blow for BT Sport, rival broadcaster Sky Sports are are set to swoop for Chris Sutton.
The former Celtic, Norwich and Blackburn striker is expected to move broadcasters in time for the new season.
Mail Sport columnist Sutton will continue to work for BBC Radio 5 Live and is likely to cover Scottish and English football for Sky, in what is a considerable coup for the station and a loss for BT Sport, soon to be rebranded TNT Sport following their merger with Warner Bros Discovery.
The Daily Record carries a similar story, Sutton works for both publishers as well as BBC Five Live!
Big Sutton will keep big fake Kris Boyd on the straight and narrow on every occasion …. Guaranteed ! That’s assuming Boyd doesn’t get pumped by the SS ! Sky’s overall production of the Scottish football package is of the cheapest standard imagineable. Four bodies packed into an undersized box on match day accompanied by the most lamentable intro music I’ve heard in ages . Don’t get me started on the inferior camera equipment ! Compare ours with the Englander version of SS football and you rapidly feel like a second class citizen whilst paying the same subscription fees …. That’s one of the drawbacks about working in London : They think they are so much better than everyone and everything else ! They have superior pollution … I’ll give them that …