Rangers knee jerk reaction is laughable as toughest Celtic job about to test another contender – Chris Sutton

There are some people who will say it must be one of the easiest jobs in the game being Celtic goalkeeper. I actually think it’s one of the toughest.

There are matches in Scotland where the man between the posts only gets called on two or three times in 90 minutes. Yet they better make sure they are 100 percent spot on with every time, otherwise the scrutiny is huge.

The slightest slip up can have massive consequences, so it takes a mentality and level of concentration you don’t see everywhere. That’s the scenario that’s likely to be ahead of Viljami Sinisalo this weekend and probably for the near future.

What a chance this is for the goalkeeper. It takes me back to my playing days when we had a young keeper who was thrust into the limelight – David Marshall. Sinisalo will probably come in to face Hearts and it’s a big game at a crucial stage of the season.

But it’s nothing compared to the pressure Marshall had when he got the call. He’s played the odd cup game here or there but it was a big moment when Rob Douglass got sent off at half-time against Barcelona at Parkhead in the UEFA Cup thanks to Bobo Balde going on the rampage.

Talk about an intense environment. Marshall coped brilliantly and we saw out the win – and everyone remembers his outstanding display at the Nou Camp when we put them out.

It’s funny, it seems there are hundreds of players on podcasts these days telling everyone how tough a dressing room it was for youngsters. Half of these guys I can’t even remember.

Yeah, we could be hard on them at times and the banter was ferocious. Let’s just say it was character building. But we also were supportive and we had Marshall’s back. He was only a teenager at the time and he was a quiet lad.

Yet he had a steel