KASPER SCHMEICHEL “CELTIC” STORY IS TABLOID GUTTER-TRAWLING AT IT’S WORST
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- May 9
- 3 min read
Every time I mention the Daily Record or The S*n here on the ACSOM Blog, I get a lot of the same kind of comments.
“Stop reading that sh*te!”
“Why are you wasting your time with that p*sh?”
And so on.
However, as I’ve said before, for as long as I am fortunate enough to have this platform and this audience, I intend to use them to call out journalistic incompetence and malpractice that hurts Celtic wherever and whenever I see it.
However, I can see where those commenters are coming from. In all honesty, I’d rather not spend any time reading these rags either.
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However, as I said before, I consider it part of my job to do so. We need to hold them to account and call out their lies and their anti-Celtic agendas.
So, with that in mind, let’s kick off this blog with a wee thought experiment. Particularly, I want to hear what those of you who haven’t read the Daily Record today have to say.
What do you think the story is about when you read this headline?
“Fuming Peter Schmeichel snubs Celtic critics of son Kasper as bitter row rumbles on”
Now, when I saw the headline, I thought: “Oh no, what has someone at Celtic said that’s offended the living legend that is Peter Schmeichel?”
As a goalkeeper in my youth, Peter Schmeichel was one of my heroes, and I’d be genuinely sad to think he didn’t feel welcome at Celtic Park for any reason.
Of course, it’s nothing of the sort. There's literally nothing to do with Celtic in this story at all. Rather the story relates to Peter Schmeichel refusal (and he think he’s totally right to do so) to engage with the Danish “journalist” who slandered Kasper Schmeichel after he played through a shoulder injury for Denmark.
An injury from which he has yet to fully recover.
The Danish publication Ekstra Bladet compared Celtic goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel to a “polio-stricken child” mocking the fact that his injury meant he effectively played one-handed for the final minutes of Denmark’s Europa League tie against Portugal back in March.
That is what Peter Schmeichel was angry about. It had nothing to do with Celtic whatsoever.
The Man Utd and Denmark great had maintained a dignified silence about the whole incident, as had his son, until this week.
Peter Schmeichel was attending the funeral of his friend the former football agent Ole Fredriksen. At the funeral, in an act of extremely poor taste, an Ekstra Bladet reporter tried to approach Peter Schmeichel for an interview.
He gave a simple, yet forceful answer: “I will never ever talk to Ekstra Bladet because of the way you treated my son. And I say that here in the church.”
That’s it. That’s the total extent of the story. A trashy tabloid tried to corner Peter Schmeichel at his friend’s funeral for an interview and he basically told them to “F**k off”.
There is no need to bring Celtic into this whatsoever. Peter Schmeichel is a good man and clearly a devoted father. He doesn’t have any feud with any “Celtic critics”.
I hope he’s there on trophy day to see Kasper lift another league title. He will certainly be welcome.
The Daily Record should not.
