{"id":201303,"date":"2025-12-24T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/201303\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:11:08","slug":"premier-league-predictions-chris-sutton-v-the-wellermens-jonny-stewart-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/201303\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton v The Wellermen’s Jonny Stewart – and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal<\/a> are sitting top of the Premier League at Christmas, but it is BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton who leads the way when it comes to predictions.<\/p>\n

“I’m number one at Christmas – again,” said Sutton, who as a player led the Premier League table at this point with Norwich in 1992 and Blackburn in 1994, and went on to win the title with Rovers.<\/p>\n

“It’s a big deal for me to be top, as well as for Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“AI is the go-to for virtually everyone in the world whenever they have to ask anything, so the fact that I am beating it – and let’s face it, I have stuffed it for half a season now – is pretty incredible. It says a lot about me, and I’m delighted. <\/p>\n

“Rather than asking AI about everything, maybe people should come to me to tap into my intelligence instead?”<\/p>\n

Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against AI, BBC Sport readers and a variety of guests.<\/p>\n

For week 18 – the festive fixtures on Boxing Day and the weekend of 27 and 28 December – he takes on Jonny Stewart, bass singer with sea shanty folk supergroup The Wellermen, who is a Newcastle<\/a> fan.<\/p>\n

The Wellermen were the originators of the sea shanty trend on TikTok, with their versions of Misty Mountain, Nancy Mulligan and Hoist the Colours racking up billions of views.<\/p>\n

Do you agree with their scores? You can make your own predictions below.<\/p>\n

The most popular scoreline selected for each game is used in the scoreboards and tables at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n

A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal are sitting top of the Premier League at Christmas, but it is BBC Sport football expert Chris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-201303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}