Southampton legend Lawrie McMenemy discusses Oriol Romeu's idea

But one gentleman who I speak to fairly often, but who is no longer in the area, is a man called Alan Kingston.

He reminded me this week of the first time we met. He was working for Southern Television and I had just arrived at The Dell.

Alan turned up with a camera crew, which was organised before my arrival, and when I met him I told him I’d only been here a week, but he replied and said he’d only been in his job for three days.

The reason I am bringing this up is that there has been a suggestion that cameras could go in the dressing room.

One of our players, Oriol Romeu, said he thought it was a good idea and I can understand his thinking.

He suggested it because games could be played behind closed doors without fans and, as he said, the crowd are always the most vital part.

Because of this, he thought that cameras in the dressing room would give supporters the feeling of being in attendance on the day.

I've never met Oriol but if he ever became a manager having cameras in the dressing room would be the last thing he’d want.

Alan Kingston reminded me that cameras came in briefly before the game but mainly went down pitchside to interview players as they finished their warm-up.

So many things happen in dressing rooms which should be kept private.

Players and staff, if they know a camera is there, will put on a different attitude.

And, apart from anything else, players are getting changed and, although that could appeal to some, players will be walking naked to the shower room.

But now I’m not sure how many dressing rooms grounds have,

In our day, we had the 11 players, one substitute, the manager, the physio and one trainer. There is more than that now just sitting on the bench.

The main thing is that a manager would not want people to hear his team talks and a lot would depend on how the game was going to determine the atmosphere at half-time and after the final whistle.

A big win would be all smiles but after nearly every game the manager will want players to sit and listen to what he believes went right and wrong.

Language, as I remember it, was not always camera-friendly and, obviously, dressing rooms are different now to how they used to be.

I’m not very good at iPads but someone sent a hilarious video which shows a manager coming into his dressing room with the players all sat down listening to him. He went to five different players and spoke to each one in a different language.

I know this is probably not what happens because, even though players come from all over the world, I presume they can all understand a manager’s English.

Having said that, some of the Scottish managers would be more difficult to understand!

Sorry, Oriol, it might be alright for a player but never, as far as I’m concerned, for a manager to have a camera on the scene.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d be the first to watch the footage if it were to happen, but from my own experience as a manager, I wouldn’t want cameras inside my dressing room.

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AS I’ve said above, I think we are all receiving phone calls from people we haven’t spoken to for many years.

In the last week, I had the pleasure of a call from David Peach, my left-back in the Cup-winning team who lives out of the area but rang to see how Anne and I were getting on and if we needed anything bringing over.

It was lovely to hear from him anyway, but for him to say that meant so much.

We then carried on catching up how each of us was doing.

David, some may remember, sadly lost his wife about three years ago and this week, ironically, he should have been staging a fundraiser which he started doing last year.

A panel of ex-players and myself would turn up to an event which is hosted by the legend Mike Osman to raise money for the hospice where David’s wife was in at the end.

He has already had players such as Kevin Keegan, Mick Channon, Matt Le Tissier and this year he had Jim McCalliog coming down from Scotland.

Although the event has been postponed, it will go ahead later in the year once it’s safe to do so.

Ironically, another call I got was from Jim McCalliog to see how we were doing.

For many years he and his wife have had a bed and breakfast business up in Scotland and it would have been good to see him.

Hopefully, that will still come off in the near future.

I also had a call from Charlie George, who supporters will remember I signed from Arsenal.

I haven’t spoken to him for what seemed like decades.

During the call, he said how much he enjoyed his time with Saints but always felt he had let me down as he didn’t play many games because of injuries.

But I knew all about that and we both took a chance hoping he would be over his injury problems, but it was not to be.

However, in his prime, he was a superstar.

He still works at Arsenal in an ambassadorial role where he shows visitors from all over the world around the Emirates and he is also in attendance at matchdays.

Another call came from Spain and it was from a lad called David Worthington. His brother, Frank, had played for us at Saints.

But Dave was older than Frank and had been my captain at Grimsby Town. He was in the team when we won the League just before I came down here.

He is a total legend in the area.

His name, along with that team, is all around the ground and he told me he comes over once before the end of the season and again at Christmas to visit friends, relatives and the club.

We talked about all those players from that team and, sadly, it’s hard to believe at least four of them now have dementia.

Dave up until recently has been employed by Everton Football Club as their scout in Spain but now, like all of that era, is probably of an age where he’d prefer to sit and watch games on TV.