To the bloke on the fornt of the EDP.......

[Kathy 733]

If you are feeling very embarrassed this morning, dont be. We all understand.

[Ken Aries 0]

as a matter of interest, do the press have to seek their "victim''s" permission before publishing such
an embarrassing picture as that? if that were me,and
i can assure you it''s not, i would be more than a little
bit annoyed to be photographed in close-up in my private
moment of grief, and then displayed on the front page for
thousands of people to look at.

[Snakepit Boy 0]

No, the press don''t need permission. If you are in a public place, you run the risk of being photographed or, indeed, being shown on television.

Sure, if you are just walking down the street minding your own business and people start taking pictures of you for no apparent reason, then that would be an invasion of privacy (unless, of course, you are a celebrity who spends loads of time courting publicity).

But if you go a high-profile football match in today''s age of multi-media coverage (particularly one of such significance as yesterday''s was), you run the risk of being in the paper.

Also, as Kathy said, the person on the front page today summed up many''s people''s reactions at the end of yesterday''s disaster. The EDP is a responsible paper, unlike some of the national tabloids, and it would only run a picture such as this becuase it thought it was a microcosm of how we all felt. And I think it was fair enough to run it.

[westoncanary. 0]

What picture guys? Don''t get the EDP in Somerset.

[Pete Raven 276]

Try the main story on the EDP homepage.

The guy has now contacted us after we put out a search for him and seems fine with gracing the front of our fine publication.

[DumbleDelia is Magic 0]

I was on sky yesterday!  I got a text from some mates a few minutes after I had been on.  Thank god I wasn''t crying!!

[westoncanary. 0]

Thanks Pete, sums it all up really doesn''t it?

[COlchester_canary 0]

I sat next to that bloke at Watford,lets just say he was a lot happier then than he is now. If I''ve got that right bloke, he''s got Svennson on the back of his shirt!