Classic Big Interview: Chris Sutton

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Chris Sutton from season two.

Chris’ success as a striker in England and Scotland was rooted in a tough start. As a kid, an initial rejection by his local club Norwich just made him all the hungrier – and a second bite at the cherry with the Canaries plus his dad and his youth coach’s tough motivational approaches set him on the trajectory to a trophy-laden career.

At Norwich he once faced Alan Shearer while playing as a centre-half, and was on the end of a 7-1 schooling. But he so shone as a striker at Carrow Road that he would soon partner Shearer at Blackburn after a record transfer move. There, manager Kenny Dalglish had his players walking through walls for him all the way to a famous last-day league title win. Yet it was Chris’ incredibly successful relationship with the legendary Henrik Larsson at Celtic that was his most cherished, not least because it followed a very difficult period at Chelsea during which he had lost his confidence.

I guarantee you will love hearing this very different side to one of the game’s great characters.

Graham

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0:00.0	Ola and welcome to a big interview from the vault. Look, all right, no fooling around.
0:18.0	We asked our socios, our members, our supporters at patreon.com, forward slash Graham Hunter to pick their favorite from season two of this long running and I have to say much loved show.
0:30.0	You're about to hear one of the interviews they've picked as the best from a selection which included
0:34.8	international footballers representing Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Argentina,
0:40.6	England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Here's what I had to say about this one when we recorded
0:47.7	during season 2016, 2017. You know if things had worked out just a little bit differently for Chris Sutton he would have
1:12.2	ended up pushing pens and paper clips at
1:14.3	Norfolk County Council rather than terrorising defenders in Scotland and England for over a decade.
1:20.6	Chris uses the word character a lot and we explore how his was forged from an initial
1:27.0	rejection by his home club Norwich although not the club he supported to his dad's
1:31.4	boot camp approach to physical fitness, brutally demanding.
1:35.0	Through his experiences as a promising young cricketer and a particularly uncompromising
1:40.0	youth team coach at Norwich, do you know what to top somebody is in football terms?
1:44.9	Well you're about to find out. Nothing came easy for Chris, but it made him grow
1:50.1	up fast, survive and thrive. First in a prodigious Norwich side under Mike Walker,
1:55.6	which earned him a British transferred record switch to Blackburn Age 21. Where did he nearly go instead?
2:01.6	Well, you'll find out here. What happened next became one of the most
2:04.9	epic tales in Premier League history. Paired with Alan Scheer up front in that memorable
2:09.6	SAS partnership, Chris's Blackburn won the 1994 title ahead of Sir Alex for
2:15.6	reasons Manchester United. He also compares and contrasts his relationship with Shearer
2:20.0	to that of Henric Larson with whom he formed a telepathic understanding at Martin O'Seltic.
2:25.2	This, I believe, is a side of Chris Sutton that not many folk have heard before.
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