The chief football writer from the Independent of London tweeted this week of an unusual and necessary fight against one of the great scourges of modern sports journalism.

“Beautiful scenes in Dortmund mixed zone as their stern media officer takes the names of selfie-hunting ‘journalists’ and she assures them they won’t be accredited again,” wrote Miguel Delaney after the Dortmund-PSG match...

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