Chris Sutton will not let his war of words with Michael Beale go.

The former Celtic striker has continued the tiff between the pair by branding the Rangers boss a 'dictator'.

The Hoops hero was today nominated for pundit of the year.

The ex-Blackburn and Chelsea player was listed alongside Ally McCoist, Alan Shearer, Alex Scott and David Coulthard for his work on BBC 5Live.

And Sutton did not waste any time in getting another dig in at Beale.

It follows on from the Ibrox gaffer branding Sutton a "comeday act" last night when speaking to the media.

He also described the controversial pundit as Chelsea's worst ever player.

The whole situation was started by Sutton would claimed Beale wouldn't have been so sporting to allow Celtic to score a goal against his team, as he did against Partick Thistle on Sunday in the Scottish Cup.

Beale went on a lengthy rant about Sutton, insisting he'd love to "mute" certain pundits on the game in Scotland.

Sutton this evening tweeted: "Delighted and proud to have been nominated for this even though certain dictators want me muted for having an opinion which is different to their own. I love working at @5LiveSport.”

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Rangers boss Beale had commented: "Listen, there are pundits that are comedy acts. There are ex-players who are comedy acts.

“I don’t even want to answer that question because they are comedy acts and they are there to create intrigue. They don’t speak about the betterment of the game, they don’t help our game at all.

“All they do is bring it back down to the gutter. There are a lot of good things we can speak about in our game at the moment, at other clubs as much as in my club.

"I don’t know why people… Why is that where they go? At the end of the day, we don’t know, do we

"If I had allowed that goal to stand and we had gone through in the cup like that, what would that have done for Malik? What would that have said about me and our club?

“And also, it seems like because Partick Thistle said it, that Ian McCall was getting the sack anyway. Then you guys would be questioning me that I took a goal from someone that lost his job.

"I think that day worked out about as well as it could have done when that situation happened.

"You see when people do that, I think we need to wise up in this country. There are people out there creating intrigue for intrigue reasons and those people, in my opinion, we need to mute them and quickly."

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