Chairman Sues Fans

taheinds · 09-17-2007, 03:00 AM

At Sheffield Wednesday

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We are in an incredible situation at Sheffield Wednesday

This month our football club issued legal action against one of our fans Darryl Keys

They wanted to sue him for suggesting that one of the SWFC directors had been talking to ‘Wednesdayite’ which is our fans association with 1200 members

The club fired off legal letters to Darryl saying they were suing him and so Darryl had to appoint a lawyer to advise and represent him

Thing is – Darryl was telling the truth 100%

When the club did some asking around in the boardroom they found that it was indeed true and dropped their action but have left Darryl with a legal bill of £4800 to pay

Next up a lifelong fan of the club who’s family have strong ties to the club is in court this month on the 27th for criticising the Chief Executive. If he loses he will lose his house, his job and possibly his partner after a year of stress leading up to the trial takes it’s toll. This person is being sued for £50,000.

It’s worth noting that this person has been the secretary of the shareholders association at SWFC and has been responsible for fundraising over the years for many initiatives such as raising money to buy a huge flag that our supporters used, enjoyed and are famous for (it was the biggest flag in England at the time) and a collection for the ticket office staff at Hillsborough after they worked under serious pressure to sell tickets to fans for the Cardiff playoff final that we attended and won a few years back

Finally the main story is that the club have started legal proceedings against me personally as owner of www.owlstalk.co.uk to force me to hand over the names and addresses of 34 users of the site and their posts for the last 12 months (because they want to see if there’s anything they have written over the last year that they can take action over ??)

They are looking to take action against these 34 people who include elderly people, students and even a direct relative of Martin Luther King (yes – seriously !)

Our lawyers estimate that if all these court cases go all the way it will cost between 4 and 8 million pounds at a time when we can’t afford to buy players, our online superstore isn’t working etc

This action is being taken by a board who’s chairman have called fans ‘scum’ ‘cretins’ ‘that lot’ ‘yobs’ and even one fan a ‘venomous :censored:’

Here’s some media on this story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o51gpNaPNK8

http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/media/tf.mp3

Listen to this:

http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/media/Part1.mp3

http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/media/Part2.mp3

http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/media/RealRadio.mp3

It’s also worth watching these:

http://www.youtube.com/v/78AsOlC4E-I

http://www.youtube.com/v/37JfB7Ovjs4

Neil Hargreaves

Neil is the owner of Owlstalk, and has posted this on another forum as a respons to an inquiry from their webmaster.

I thought people would be interested to know what is going on here, and just how far SWFC has fallen.

And to see if we can have the status of the chairman Dave Allen channged from loves the club to sucking the life out it.

Alurny · 09-17-2007, 03:01 AM

Big discussion of this on my Newcastle Forum I visit. Its all a big gray area IMO. You have to watch what you say!!

Lovejoy! · 09-17-2007, 03:08 AM

OWLD news.

davidbowie · 09-17-2007, 03:39 AM

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Originally posted by Lovejoy!:
OWLD news.

:*)

Crazy_T · 09-17-2007, 03:43 AM

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Originally posted by davidbowie:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Lovejoy!:
OWLD news.

:*) </BLOCKQUOTE>

What does :*) mean btw?

taheinds · 09-17-2007, 03:59 AM

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Originally posted by Lovejoy!:
OWLD news.

It was announced on Fridy that the club are looking to sue 36 other fans. Some of whom they have no direct evidence against, they want to troll for it first.

I don't care if it is old, it should freighten everyone on here, much less any forum in the world. Has everything you've ever put been completely above reproach? might the heat of the moment caused you to post something that had a bit of anger in it?

how would you react to being sued for it?

If Mr. Allen wins, expect other owners to look at it as a way to shut up "troublesome" fans.

Lovejoy! · 09-17-2007, 04:10 AM

there's already been a thread, making this one null and void baby.

taheinds · 09-17-2007, 04:16 AM

sorry, searched for and didn't find it.

Gregg Carter · 09-17-2007, 08:08 AM

Search results for: chairman sue fans

Brought up this result as the first result:

http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8191933...752080543#4752080543

Chairman Sues Fans

Grab a beer, sit back and relax.

Chairman Sues Fans