Sutton, Fray Take On Copilot in Premier League Picks
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- Microsoft Copilot finished top of the BBC Sport predictions league last season at first attempt; Chris Sutton lost the title after a final-day defeat
- Sutton joked he may have been "hacked" — "I keep reading how AI models are going rogue and attacking each other" — suggesting AI's win shouldn't stand
- Sutton will predict all 380 Premier League games this season against AI, BBC Sport readers and rotating guests, starting with Liam Fray
- Fray, Courteeners frontman and Manchester United fan, is the opening-round guest; the band's "best of" compilation "God Bless The Band" is out 28 August
- Fray said he is "really up for" the season under Michael Carrick but conceded "we are not going to be challenging for the title because we are not at Arsenal or Manchester City's level"
- Fray compared Carrick's sideline passion to performing on stage — "it is not that difficult to let people watching see that you are fully into what you are doing" — and said "every part of me" wants Marcus Rashford to succeed under him
Why it matters: Fray's quotes on Carrick's visible passion and his hope Rashford will "make it work" give editors ready-made pull-quotes for Manchester United preview coverage, while the AI-vs-humans format puts a celebrity fan and a defending champion chatbot head-to-head across 380 games in a content engine built for shareability.
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