Arsenal are sitting high of the Premier League at Christmas, however it’s BBC Sport soccer professional Chris Sutton who leads the best way in relation to predictions.

“I am primary at Christmas – once more,” stated Sutton, who as a participant led the Premier League desk at this level with Norwich in 1992 and Blackburn in 1994, and went on to win the title with Rovers.

“It is a huge deal for me to be high, in addition to for Arsenal.

“AI is the go-to for just about everybody on the earth every time they need to ask something, so the truth that I’m beating it – and let’s face it, I’ve stuffed it for half a season now – is fairly unimaginable. It says loads about me, and I am delighted.

“Quite than asking AI about every little thing, possibly individuals ought to come to me to faucet into my intelligence as an alternative?”

Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League video games this season, in opposition to AI, BBC Sport readers and quite a lot of friends.

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 folks supergroup The Wellermen, who’s a Newcastle fan.

The Wellermen had been the originators of the ocean shanty development on TikTok, with their variations of Misty Mountain, Nancy Mulligan and Hoist the Colors racking up billions of views.

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