United to ban press photographers?

Neil Thomson

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<a href="http://sport.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2002/09/22/sfnman22.xml&sSheet=/sport/2002/09/22/ixfooty.html" target="_blank">Interesting article in the Telegraph</a> suggests that next season there may be no press photographers allowed into OT to take match pictures, and instead newspapers and magazines will have to buy the pictures off of the club. Also that they are trying out live feed of the game over the web, in advance of See Red presumably having full live coverage.
 
Another revenue stream - but sometimes I think they take it a bit too far. Surely the papers could do without the pictures? In fact might they not bother in protest?
 
Originally posted by Dans:
<strong>Another revenue stream - but sometimes I think they take it a bit too far. Surely the papers could do without the pictures? In fact might they not bother in protest?</strong><hr></blockquote>

<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laugh Out Loud]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laugh Out Loud]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laugh Out Loud]" /> i can just see the headlines , "NEWS PAPERS REFUSE TO BUY MAN UTD PICTURES IN PROTEST" , following week,

NEWSPAPER OFFERS MILLIONS FOR EXCLUSIVE PICTURES OF ROY KEANES TACKLE ON JASON MACATEER, it could be career threatening, ohh and david Beckham has a new haircut <img src="graemlins/smirk.gif" border="0" alt="[Smirk]" />
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