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Blackpool sue fans over online comments

  • 04-02-2015 6:17pm
    #1
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/local/pool-fan-set-to-face-oystons-in-court-1-7085970


    A lifelong Blackpool FC fan claims he will be backed up by dozens of his friends and family as he faces the Oyston family in the High Court.

    Doesnt mention what he said so could be either "chairman is crap" or "chairman eats babies"

    Oyston not very well liked it seems at Blackpool.

    Bit weird to sue them in court.


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  • #2
    Ordinary man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭Ordinary man


    The report says some of the comments refer to Owen Oyston’s conviction for rape in 1996


  • #3
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    dreamers75 wrote: »

    Bit weird to sue them in court.

    Where else would they sue them?


  • #4
    Dirty Steve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Dirty Steve


    That lad is 32? Don't feel so bad about my extra couple of post-dec/jan kgs.

    The Oyston family have run that club into the ground. We all complain about our clubs/managers etc., but to be a Blackpool fan must be a terrible sort of pain.


  • #5
    Duck Soup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭Duck Soup


    Bit of a rum character, our Owen.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Oyston.


  • #6
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,586 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    If this so-called fan has been making defamatory comments then the individuals involved have every right to defend themselves. Is it really his defense that he is a "fan" of their football club and so should be allowed to say whatever he wants?

    That he is already appealing to the masses suggests that he has no other defense.


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  • #7
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Duck Soup wrote: »
    Bit of a rum character, our Owen.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Oyston.

    1400419395950.jpg


  • #8
    smackbunnybaby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭smackbunnybaby


    This happened on a Sheffield Wednesday, fans message board as well back in 2007.

    But it was over something very petty, like questioning the Chairman and his report over their ambition and plans with the club. Those 2 lads were old and weren't very internet savy though and treated message board comments like the front of the Times headlines.


  • #9
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    From what I know he made some pretty tasty allegations regarding the owner's family, their supposed predilection for using a local travel lodge as a knocking shop, and an ailment transferred via bodily fluids that spread around the playing staff due to players being supplied with the same ladies for their personal use. He even claimed the treatment for this particular medical issue required a substance on the FA banned list, but the club allegedly shushed things up, dropped the players while it was in their system, and said no more

    So, yeah, if he's not able to back that up pretty well, he's going to be screwed


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