Douglas Higginbottom wrote:ruralblue wrote:What is a fucking joke is the fact the photographers can get such a shot, yet poor Doug still hasn't got a pass to see the training.
Yes John you are right when you keep looking at it the coach looks like he has been put in afterwards as if to show they are taking the piss out of the situation.
The photographer was about 10 feet away from me ( and behind the fence as well but they really were as close as it appears) and there was nothing more certain that they would get the picture and it would appear with exactly the headline it did. (it's not a photoshop attempt)
Typical journalism and not worth wasting time on.
I don't doubt it happened, but that 2nd photograph is a pyhsical impossibility. He is either stood in front of them, or behind them - it's one thing for us to be ruining football, but the shit will hit the fan if the papers get wind of our coaches having mastered the ability to be in two places at once, as that would be a clear unfair advantage.
The line of sight of both the coach and De Jong would suggest that the coach was actually much further to the left, and it has been edited to appear closer than was actually the case. It seems clear that the photo has been 'shopped' to squeeze him into a smaller picture to highlight the newspaper's point.
Like I said, not doubting it happened, but that is a blatent manipulation of a photo which shows the lengths the media will go to in order to make a story out of nothing.
