Celtic Fan Media Defends Starfelt As The Club Puts The Big Chap Front And Centre.

ACSOM yesterday was excellent in its rousing defence of Carl Starfelt.

This guy is still the subject of constant, and tiresome, sniping from certain people in the mainstream media, the most obvious of which is the idiotic Keevins who just won’t let up.

There was a time – and not that long ago – when the media found it much easier to demonise and by virtue of that destroy Celtic players and managers. Their power to do so is greatly reduced due to the prominence of fan media which stands up for our footballers and allows them the space to grow into their roles. Starfelt has been doing so.

We are not watching the complete player at the moment.

Starfelt actually plays better on the right side of defence, but that position belongs to Carter Vickers. Kobayashi is actually our only naturally left sided centre back … which is why he’s been signed.

For all that, I like Starfelt. I do wish he’s concentre more before trying to pass the ball, but in fact he’s not doing anything that I haven’t watched players at the very top of the game do.

This is because the style of football we play – basically playing the ball out from the back along the floor – is now commonplace in the game and so are the counters to it.

We’re not going to ditch the policy, in no small measure because it works as our results clearly show. But he’s still raw and needs to work on some things. For an idiot like Keevins this makes him fair game.

But the club has enough confidence to keep putting him in front of the media, and Celtic fan media continues to fight his corner.

And that is such a positive thing to see. Like I said, I was delighted yesterday when I heard the guys on ACSOM give such a rousing defence of the player and all of us should be doing it.

Because there are elements of the media who would love to destroy this guy, in no small part because some of them, and Keevins is one of them, miss having that kind of power.

Which is all the more reason to permanently keep it out of their grubby hands.