I thought good sense would prevail at Southampton football club whose owners banned media photographers from the ground in August.
Within a month, the ban was quietly lifted on all but staff from the city's major newspaper, the Southern Daily Echo, and it seemed as if the club would eventually relent.
Thus far, however, the ban on Echo photographers remains in place to the continuing bafflement of its editor, Ian Murray.
He tells holdthefrontpage today: "We are disappointed that when the club lifted their complete photographic ban on all other media, including national newspaper and agency photographers, they failed to do so for us. The club have given no explanation for their actions."
