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Cartoonist Breaks Sport Photography Stalemate

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Southampton Football Cub, on the south coast of England, have been in conflict with local newspaper, the Plymouth Herald. They have restricted access for photographers, demanding instead that media outlets buy officially sanctioned (and costly) images taken by the club.

So the Argyle brought in a strike breaker. Cartoonist Chris Robinson. Who watched this weekend's match on the television between Southampton and Plymouth Argyle and drew his favourite bits. Which the paper planned to print in its match report.

But at the last minute, Plymouth Argyle fearing a backlash from sponsors, provided their own images, for free, to the paper.

Cartoonist Breaks Sport Photography Stalemate

Cartoonist Breaks Sport Photography Stalemate

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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