Soccer Extreme : After speculation on the love life of Frank Lampard and the possible split from fiance Elen Rives I was sent to one of his houses in West London. There were a few photographers milling around, one from the Daily Mail, The Daily Star and The Sun, clearly a good tabloid gossip story
There had been Paparazzi agency photographers present, but after a couple of hours had decided that the Lampards were not at home home. Myself and the remaining Newspaper photographers decided that we would move to the opposite side of the road, away from the house. This would allow us to take photos in a civilised manner and not intimidate the household.>> The Lampard front door had a heart shaped balloon tied to the front, this caused some confusion in the Mirror offices after they saw the photo.
Frank came out of the house after lunch but was holding one of his children, in the 1990's this would have made little difference but these days quite rightly the Daily Mirror would not publish such images.Later on Frank's fiance Elen Rives left the house. She was on her own and the rest of the household remained inside.
We remained on the other side of the street and used longer lenses for the pictures. Thankfully there were no paparazzi agencies nearby, some of which would use wide angle lenses and go for the 'in you face' approach which rarely produces better images and tends to antagonise the subject. (Mirror)