Message Board Confussion

[BOROMAN]

The Enfield Town board seems to have got mixed up with the ESL board.

 

Every time I click on ET I get ESL.

[Tom S]

The ETFC forum is currently suspended as a result of the recent legal difficulties.

[Mean It Mick]

Well said boroman, Why dont you ETFC mugs get your own message board again, just because you get mugged off in court i see no reason to take your forum off!

 

Your court case is fish and chip paper now!

[Mr Happy]

and your brain is mushy peas Mick!

[Normans Wisdom]

Fish and Chips it may be but. Once bitten twice shy.

 

 

[daveyboond]

I do understand that the ETFC forum was suspended on the advice of the

legal team but it does seem nonsensical when the whole of ETFC just migrates to here to carry on as normal.

 

This is in fact a worse place for discussion to take place. On the ETFC forum, the moderator would be particularly sensitive to postings that could compromise the club's position, and would take steps quickly to remove dodgy postings and exclude troublemakers. That will happen more slowly here, if at all, because the ESL forum moderator does not have a stake in the case.

[Normans Wisdom]

Yes but if you upset somebody you're on your own there is nothing to link it to the club officially!

 

 

[The Invisible Man]

But surely there is no link between any non-league forum, even the ETFC one, and the club, as they are all unofficial? A simple disclaimer would add a bit more comfort. We don't even need to be sanctioned by the club, as I understand it. Also, most of the posts that could possibly have the remotest chance of being libellous have come from supporters of other clubs.

 

It's the same as a newspaper publishing a letter, I presume. Or if someone slanders another while sitting in a pub, the pub is not liable is it?

 

To keep our forum removed now does seem a bit excessive.

[BOROMAN]

I would have said the same until last season, when that guy from Goole Town got into all sorts of do dah for criticising a ref on an unofficial website.

 

Althought that was Yorkshire.

[Touchline]

Don't know about the pub, but if a newspaper publishes a letter containing libel, it can be prosecuted, along with the letter writer.

[The Invisible Man]

Sued, rather than prosecuted, surely?

 

But I quibble. Thank you for the clarification, Touchline.

[Touchline]

Pleasure, Mr Invisible. All the best for the new season!

[The Invisible Man]

Cheers TL, same to you! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Colin, Germany]

Surely a pub cannot be sued for slander if a customer criticises a referee on its premises?

[daveyboond]

The newspaper analogy is not valid; the pub analogy is. If a newspaper publishes something libellous, the newspaper gets sued. Similarly, if ETFC published something libellous, say in the matchday programme, they would get sued. But we are talking about the ETFC forum, which is not officially linked to the club. It's like suggesting that if I went to the Gareth Gates newsgroup and libelled someone then Gareth himself would get sued.

[Colin, Germany]

So, does that mean that Non-League UK cannot be sued for libel if someone were to criticise a referee on these forums?

[Rodders]

I hope not Colin, I have been guilty in the past to criticize some of our ESL refs.

 

Of course I am a reformed character now and I won't do that anymore ........Honest I won't !

[BOROMAN]

Gareth Gates deserves to be sued for appearing on my telly without my permission.

[Mean It Mick]

He has nobbed Jordan though so credit to the fella!

 

I take my hat off to him, but tnothing else before anyone says something!

[Mr Happy]

He may have nobbed Jordan but the little [******] kept denying it!

 

I bet you've got his latest CD Mick. I bet it's your type of music!