This kind of thing doesn't make for very good PR: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/jan/25/press-freedom-southampton
If they wouldnt have used the opinions gained in a "only publish the things that would sell more papaer" attitude id have sympathy.
It is going a little bit too far... But then again pissing off a load of journos is not gonna make me lose any sleep.
Hmmm, so was I imagining the fans interviewed outside the ground prior to the televised Everton match then?
I read the first line and then stopped: "It seems there is no end to the lengths Southampton FC will go in their harrassment of the media..." FFS. The media complaining about harrassment; I've heard it all now.
"The media" isn't one guy you know. These sports journalists have as much to do with harassing people as you or I. I fail to see how attracting negative coverage is a good thing, maybe one of you guys who are cheering this news can enlighten me?
Actually, trying to get from the family enclosure right around the stadium I always seem be be swimming against the tide. If people have stopped in the relatively narrow channels around it won't help that but..... can you imagine a situation where the press had been a loggerheads with say a retail company for a few years, criticising the running of it, then welcoming the reporters to film a critical piece in one of their shops? I won't lose any sleep about the journalists not door stopping me when I am trying to get back to the car.
I was interviewed outside St Marys by Sky as was my brother. There was also plenty of reporters just outside the St Marys area. It's not like the area is huge which makes reporters have to stand miles from St Marys is it?.
Does sound like the fell hand of health and safety...they only have to move a few yards and they can still interview fans without us incurring liability. Ridiculous I know, but that's life in 21st Britain. No one can clear snow without incurring liability if someone slips on the bit you've left. Sadly, there is a fashion with news...one dog gets kidnapped, papers are full of similar stories. We can expect a lot of anti-Saints stuff after sacking Adkins. They are waiting for us to fail and have the headlines ready.
Hang on a minute PTF, where in my post am I cheering it? My comment was very simple: I stopped reading when a reporter in a newspaper wrote that SFC were harrassing journalists (the media in the context of the article). I think you must have misunderstood where I was coming from.
How am I supposed to have any sort of opinion on this when neither the club nor the Guardian will tell me what exactly these "health and safety reasons" are? They expect the readers to make their minds up on who's the bad guy without giving us nearly enough information. I'd also like to know why it's so difficult to just go off the club's land and interview fans there.
They did hence why I don't see the big deal?, at the Everton game there were Japanese, Norwegian,Spanish and English journo's all happily interviewing fans just outside St Mary's land. Sky were on St Mary's land interviewing people and didn't get chucked off?.
There's plenty of stewards around, someone must know one. So does anyone know, or have a first hand account of, what they were told to do in relation to media outside the stadium?
