Ex-Celtic Striker Skewers Ibrox Boy Band Wannabe With His Razor Sharp Pen.

Well, that didn’t take long did it?

Just days after Todd Cantwell foolishly opened his yap and launched a deranged attack on big Chris, Sutton has responded just as we knew he would; firing acid tipped darts from his razor sharp pen.

To say that he hit the mark would be an understatement; he aimed for the bullseye and melted it. And this is only the start. Cantwell better get ready for more.

If you want to measure Todd Cantwell’s IQ you should start from knowing that he attacked Sutton after our former striker had thoroughly annihilated The Mooch over the course of their own wee vendetta.

Whereas a manager has too many things on his mind to be messing about fighting with a journalist, for Chris Sutton taking shots at guys like him is exactly what he gets paid for day in and day out, and so he literally has nothing better to do.

Having watched The Mooch being eviscerated like that, you’d think even this moron would have had enough sense to keep his gob shut and do his talking on the pitch.

For someone whose hype is very obviously way out in front of his talent, he’s got enough problems already looming when everyone in the Ibrox stands figures that out without a mainstream journalist who not only has newspapers columns and radio slots but a presence on TV pointing it out.

Loudly. Repeatedly. Sniggering the whole time.

Cantwell obviously hasn’t heard that old adage about never picking a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, and Sutton pours nitroglycerine into his ink for added effect. And today he unleashed the first of many barrages in the Ibrox player’s direction.

“For someone who has had a bang average career, he doesn’t half have a high opinion of himself,” Sutton said. “The truth is he’s better known for his social media presence and being on TikTok than being on the pitch and if I was him, I’d want to address that … Staying relevant? I don’t do Kate Bush type dances on TikTok to stay relevant. I’m told he does; I don’t have a TikTok account … I’ve had a role north of the border for a decade and do you know what? Pundits talk about all Scottish teams so that’s why I talk about Todd Cantwell and (his club) but I also talk about Hibs, Hearts, Aberdeen and all the other Scottish teams. That’s my job.”

He then made a few suggestions about how Cantwell might do his own a bit better.

“This is a guy who along with the other (Ibrox) players have had a not great start. The manager got sacked. What would I be doing in this situation? I’d be keeping my head down; I’d be keeping my mouth shut and I’d be training hard and working a way back to a certain level of form before even thinking about spouting your mouth off. He’s oblivious to it all and that’s the most worrying thing. This is a guy Michael Beale signed. Essentially Michael Beale’s big players, Todd Cantwell included, didn’t turn up in big games. Todd Cantwell went missing in action against PSV in the Champions League, missing in action against Celtic.”

Then comes my favourite bit.

“Go back to last season in the big meaningful games against Celtic. What’s your memory of Todd Cantwell? Taking a water bottle away from the Celtic midfielder Reo Hatate. Not the ball, a water bottle.”

Ouch … that one has to hurt, right?

And he wasn’t even finished there!

Sutton gave him it with both barrels and then delivered the coup de grace by talking about his rant against his former club Norwich as well.

“I read some of his quotes about Norwich City. The five managers previous to Michael Beale, they all discarded Todd. Why did they discard Todd? You fall out with one manager and that may be understandable. One maybe wrong, could it be two? We’ll give him that, we’ll give him three if we’re being generous, but five managers all thought the same. When is the penny going to drop and is Todd going to take some responsibility for his own actions. Do your talking on the pitch … The fact he talks about himself in the third person tells you what you want to know about him … He should learn from Michael Beale. The (Ibrox) fans eventually saw through Michael Beale … Michael Beale ended up losing his job because of it and people will see through Todd.”

When you go through those comments it’s clear that this is not Sutton on a rant. That is forensic. That is detailed. That is specific and targeted and devasting.

In tabloid celebrity journalism that would stand up as a superb example of what they call a “take down piece.”

As Cantwell clearly has only limited interest in being a footballer and would obviously prefer to be in some sort of showbiz setting, I think it’s appropriate, and brilliant, that Sutton has treated him like some sort of boy-band wannabe.

If Cantwell hasn’t realised already how stupid he was to open himself up to this, he should go over those comments and recognise that it was a huge mistake. If he’s got any sense it’s not one he’ll repeat, but what do you reckon the odds are on that?