Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers won’t be able to rely upon Kasper Schmeichel for the next few weeks as the goalkeeper picked up an injury in the last international break.
The 38-year-old started for Denmark in their two UEFA Nations League matches against Portugal in March. Denmark lost in extra time in the return leg in Lisbon and the stopper injured his shoulder late in the game.
Ekstra Bladet journalist Anders Olsen was highly critical of the Celtic player and compared his performance to a ‘polio-stricken child’. He questioned Schmeichel’s weight, resulting in strong backlash from Denmark’s Players Football Association. They even asked for an apology.
Olsen insisted he was misunderstood and didn’t issue an apology, but he continues to be slammed. Last week, FC Copenhagen midfielder Rasmus Falk said the journalist’s remarks about the Celtic star were “too degrading”.
Danish TV presenter Morten Ankerdal has become the latest to stand in solidarity with the former Leicester City man and Billed Bladet relay his comments.
Ankerdal is clearly unhappy with Olsen’s remarks and has refused to talk to Ekstra Bladet.
“I’m not talking to Ekstra Bladet. I don’t want to talk to a newspaper that thinks it’s okay to write like that about another person,” he said.
“I just think it’s so disrespectful. I can’t understand how anyone can think it’s okay to start dragging in polio-affected children and writing that people are chatty and things like that. Then I just say no thanks.”
The outlet adds Ekstra Bladet editor-in-chief Knud Brix has ‘repeatedly denied’ that there was ‘anything wrong’ with Olsen’s editorial.
