Thank you for the support oldweststander, SINA & mutiny.
Without taking the thread off topic SINA is spot on with what happened that day. I'd been taking pics of all the HASLAM OUT signs all along the A617 & had set one as the wallpaper on my laptop (I wasn't working for the club then). When I turned my laptop on the fans behind that had seen it all cheered & a steward grassed me up to H*slam. Bearing in mind at the time we were having all those problems with the stewards & I'd taken pics of them assaulting young kids on the pitch etc so they were itching to get revenge on me which they did by assaulting me at the end of the season (
https://www.chad.co.uk/news/stags-stewa ... s-1-690828) I had the last laugh though as the photos I got of them assaulting kids got them sacked, see here:
https://www.chad.co.uk/sport/football/m ... e-1-690923 &
https://www.chad.co.uk/news/fans-anger- ... s-1-690882 Next thing I knew there was about 6 of them around me telling me I had to leave the stadium. I asked why & they just said 'orders from the chairman'. I looked up at the directors box & he was puffing on his cigar (which he shouldn't have been doing) & smiling. So I packed all my gear up & as I was being escorted down the front of the West Stand another steward came over & he said "You've been banned for life so don't try & come back" & I asked what grounds and he said the chairman had told him to tell me. I wasn't too sure this was true because of what I've just said about the stewards but when I looked up at the directors box again he was smiling at me & blowing his cigar smoke into the air. So I thought right if I'm getting banned I'll make sure I get banned for doing something so I gave him the finger which got a cheer! He didn't see me the first time so I waited for him to look at me & I did it again just to make sure he'd seen me. I then got arrested for a public order offence 'because it happened inside a football stadium'.
Lots of other things happened after that. I went to Chester the week after for our game & H*slam had told them I'd been banned from every ground in the league for assaulting him! They weren't going to let me in but in the end they did but wouldn't let me pitchside, they made me sit in a sterile part of the stand between the home & away fans! There's more here:
https://www.chad.co.uk/news/so-who-did- ... n-1-688070 I'm not banned anymore but Stags have got their own (excellent) club photographers now so that boat has sailed but I still love coming back home.