That there is the Barclays Premiership trophy. Except I can't show you that image in full, because the uncensored version in all its pure, unfiltered glory would destroy the very foundations of the society we live in.

Actually that's bollocks, of course it wouldn't. The photo is of what I am reliably informed is the 'back' of the Barclays Premiership trophy. It looked exactly the same, to me, as the front.

But one the Barclays Premiership trophy's two quite burly minders came over to me and actually stopped me from filming it.

"You can't take a photo of that," he told me, as though this were the most obvious rule in the world. "Go round the other side."

Not being one to risk a brawl in a broadcast studio I naturally complied - just as I'm referring to it as the 'Barclays Premiership trophy', as I have been told so to do.

It's a shame really, isn't it? We live in a world where a (Barclays Premiership) trophy comes along to a radio station where a lucky young man has won the chance to have his photo taken with it, and suddenly there's so many rules and regulations.

Okay, so you're not allowed to touch it, which makes perfect sense in order to maintain its pristine condition. But not photographing the back of it? When it looks identical to the front? WHY?! What's the worst that could happen?

As far as I'm concerned this is symptomatic of the world in which we now have to live. Absolutely everything with so much as a minute commercial value is promoted and policed to within an inch of its life. I never expected to have to say this, but it feels like the Barclays Premiership trophy is threatening my basic human rights! If I can't take a photo of a piece of metal from an angle of my choice, what can I do?

Still. It's a very nice Barclays Premiership trophy. Here's the front of it: