Our lawyers are watching and listening?

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Having heard some of the wild accusations aimed towards De Jong in last 48 hours, I now ask for counsel from learned legal beagles.

Adrian Durham, Stan Collymore and Mickey Quinn have all accused Nige of purposely aiming 'to do' Ben Arfa with intent.

Former referee Graham Poll in Daily Mail column today has also pointed the finger and attempted to add further doubts on De Jong.

I believe this to be defamation of character, and should be pursued.

A germ or myth is being perpetuated, which will impact greatly on De Jong's ability to play the game at his required level?

 

[moomba]

Send them to the cleaners, the lot of them.

 

[Balti]

Well said. Surely this is slanderous and the club could sue if no retractions are forthcoming?

 

[LukeBamford01]

Bollocks, De Jong is a real man, he'll thrive on all these twats talking shite. The whole team should, any excuse to create a siege mentality is good for me, fuck everyone who is not city.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Agree 100% and said this the other day. Vicky Kloss should be getting hammered over this at Points of Blue tomorrow.

 

[Seosa]

It wasn't you who had Mickey Quinn stuttering on talkShite yesterday with the legal advice was it Tolm?

 

[Duvet Rosler]

Having worked on both sides (in house national newspapers legal depts) and with media law firms I find all of the stories Re: City very frustrating, but silly as it sounds any defamation issues are usually quelled under fair comment or (perhaps more worryingly) truth.

 

[m27]

Having worked on both sides (in house national newspapers legal depts) and with media law firms I find all of the stories Re: City very frustrating, but silly as it sounds any defamation issues are usually quelled under fair comment or (perhaps more worryingly) truth.

I'll bow to your superior knowledge obviously but how could someone saying or writing that De Jong went out to injure a fellow pro be "fair comment" or "truth"?

 

[the blue panther]

As a lawyer, I believe he has been defamed, and he hasn't been helped by his union leader this morning. All very strange, seeing as the professional TV pundits and the ref deemed it not to be a foul at the time.
The suggestion of intent is ridiculous in my personal view, as an amateur player of a reasonable standard. I even take issue with the suggestion that it was reckless. It was a routine slide tackle, and there were probably dozens similarly made over the weekend.
The problem for the club is that they are damned if they do and damned if they don't but, again, my personal view is to fight fire with fire. I believe that the minimum requirement is that a strong statement be issued by MCFC greatly regretting the consequences of what was a strong tackle made without any malice, but denouncing the media witchhunt which has been mounted in the days since, and to name the guilty individuals and media outlets who are allowing this nonsense to gush forth. Alternatively, and I suspect this may be taking place, a suitably worded letter will be faxed to the relevant organisations this p.m. Hope so.

 

[Scrabster Six]

I would imagine that if there is work to be done on this we will not see Vicky at the meeting tomorrow or if she is there and something is ongoing she will be restricted to what she can say anyway.At least it will be an interesting meeting..