A member of my club recently made a perfectly normal, safe outlanding in
a field in Lincolnshire near to a field where a cricket match was in
progress. Unfortunately the local rag found out and reported it in the
usual sensationalised "Glider Pilot in Shock Horror Death Plunge" kind
of language.

Unfortunately, this is the norm rather than the exception even in
Germany. For the very least it's titled as an "emergency landing".

At least that's a "landing" of some sort; here it's usually reported as a
"crash", even when it's blindingly obvious there wasn't one!

Even more alarming is the case where you make a perfectly good landing in a
field and by the time you have got out of the cockpit to seek a phone (in
the days before mobiles), an ambulance, a fire engine, and a police car meet
you at the gate. This happened to me twice! I never made it to the news
sheets.

Alistair Wright