How we beat the Saints photo ban (From Swindon Advertiser)
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How we beat the Saints photo ban
11:39am Wednesday 1st September 2010 in
SOUTHAMPTON may have banned all press photographers from St Mary's this season - but that didn't stop the Advertiser from bringing Town fans all the action from last night's game.
And while sometimes fans and clubs are labelled as 'plastics', it was the players who yesterday took on the form of the artificial substance.
As Swindon thumped the Johnstone's Paint Trophy holders 3-0 on their own patch to progress to the second round of the competition, we were left unable to print images of the match unless we paid Southampton for their own copies.
But, along with almost every paper - regional and national - across the country, we boycotted that idea and decided to come up with something original and innovative instead.
That was where Subbuteo came in. Several members of the sports desk raided their parents' attics and came up with quite a collection of items from the childhood game.
And after a quick paint-job we were able to go back to our youths and recreate the key moments from Town's drubbing of the Saints.
Pictured right are some of the best images from last night's action.
Comments(21)
SeanGraham
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11:49am Wed 1 Sep 10
PJennings wrote:Sky have pics because they can buy them, its like at Alton tower's where you have to pay to get official pics from you on the ride.
ive seen a pic from last night on skysports website, by the way saints home kit looks awful and our 3rd kit looks smart
Stdenysta
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11:51am Wed 1 Sep 10
st waggy
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11:52am Wed 1 Sep 10
SeanGraham
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11:56am Wed 1 Sep 10
Stdenysta wrote:Its when the ball is played,
Pericard is clearly offside for the opener!
Stdenysta
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12:00pm Wed 1 Sep 10
st waggy wrote:Having a sense of humour lapse?
grow up ffs
PJennings
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12:34pm Wed 1 Sep 10
Oi Den!
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12:35pm Wed 1 Sep 10
joeyboy
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12:41pm Wed 1 Sep 10
dosomework
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12:55pm Wed 1 Sep 10
Stdenysta wrote:I agree, its just a joke as are southampton!
st waggy wrote: grow up ffsHaving a sense of humour lapse?
Perhaps he didn't get any last night!
SeanGraham
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1:02pm Wed 1 Sep 10
dosomework wrote:perhaps? I think its a definite DIDNT get any, probably for a few months now.
Stdenysta wrote:I agree, its just a joke as are southampton!
st waggy wrote: grow up ffsHaving a sense of humour lapse?
Perhaps he didn't get any last night!
PJennings
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1:28pm Wed 1 Sep 10
bring on a win on sat
the_gloves
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2:09pm Wed 1 Sep 10
Jesus_02
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2:33pm Wed 1 Sep 10
I wonder if someone could be paid to re-create Premier League goals using Fifa 98 for local TV. That would get around Sky’s ridiculous "ban" on moving pictures.
BTW if anyone should be coughing up for photo’s then maybe it should be Newscorpe that sells a complete package to papers like the Swindon Advertiser.
mister bus
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3:57pm Wed 1 Sep 10
Donkey of Langton
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4:38pm Wed 1 Sep 10
madterrier
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4:49pm Wed 1 Sep 10
Good one Adver!
The 'comic' idea has already been done, by Plymouth's photographer/artist on the first game of the season.
http://www.thisisply
mouth.co.uk/news/Arg
yle-don-t-settle-dra
w/article-2503642-de
tail/article.html
the_gloves
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5:20pm Wed 1 Sep 10
dazegoonboy
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5:37pm Wed 1 Sep 10
deepforest
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6:19pm Wed 1 Sep 10
CharlieBarley
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7:19am Fri 3 Sep 10
deepforest wrote:I thought that was Nick Clegg...
Perhaps this might be the begining of a trend. Instead of pics of the PM we could have pics of a muppet. Which leads me to wondering, which particular muppet would stand in for dave?
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PJennings says...
11:46am Wed 1 Sep 10