Battling to the Bitter End Last-Day Drama Former Celtic Striker Chris Sutton Remembers Only Too Well the Thin Line That Can Lie Between Success and Failure When the Title Race Goes Right to the Finish, Finds Stewart Fisher

Sunday Herald › May 19, 2009

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CHRIS Sutton's most strenuous physical exercise these days is opening the batting for his village cricket team, even if some Celtic fans still wish he was coming out to bat for them. Six years have passed since the former Celtic striker accused Jimmy Calderwood's Dunfermline side of "lying down" against Rangers as the 2002/03 season reached a climactic and acrimonious conclusion on goal difference on the last day of the campaign, a scenario which could well be re-enacted in seven days' time.

A problem with his eyesight caused Sutton to give up the game earlier than he would have liked, but that ailment has nothing to do with the involuntary cringe he experiences every time that infamous interview footage intrudes upon his rural idyll in East Anglia.

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Battling to the Bitter End Last-Day Drama Former Celtic Striker Chris Sutton Remembers Only Too Well the Thin Line That Can Lie Between Success and Failure When the Title Race Goes Right to the Finish, Finds Stewart Fisher

"That was the heat of the moment, and you say things, " Sutton said.

"You saw that after the ChelseaBarcelona game a fortnight ago - people say things they shouldn't say.

Football is an emotional game, you get caught up in the moment. It is something I look back on now a...

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