NCFC took legal action will the binners ?

[Bill 1,788]

over a claim in today''s Daily Mail that states -

" Evans, who has been described as the biggest ticket tout in the world, "

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1250999/CHARLES-SALE-Olympics-alert-Ipswich-Town-owner-Marcus-Evans-offers.html#ixzz0fcFprQhc

how much lower can this grubby little club sink ?

[PurpleCanary 5,554]

There is nothing obviously defamatory in that Mail piece. Being a ticket tout is not in itself illegal.

[Bill 1,788]

Ticket touting for sporting events IS.

The seedy image associated with the term ticket tout is hardly one you would want for the chairman of yoru club - though given the dubious nature of much of what has gone on at poorman road over the past decade it''s can''t be much of a surprise that they were handed over to someone with that type of profile.

Any wonder he operates as a shadowy charactor.

[PurpleCanary 5,554]

[quote user="City1st"]Ticket touting for sporting events IS.[/quote]Not true. Ticket fraud is illegal but ticket touting in this country for sporting events is not illegal. In many instances it is a perfectly respectable business. What IS illegal is touting football tickets, but there is no suggestion in that Mail piece that Evans does that.

[Bill 1,788]

ooops, jumped the gun there

It is illegal in this country to tout tickets for the 2012 Olympics - which is what the invisible man is suggesting can be done, albeit with the proviso that no tickets are actually on offer.

Rather a murky and sordid state of affairs, rather like what has happened pretty much most the past few years at poorman road.

But in agreement, it IS NOT illegal (nor is prostitution) but it hardly seems a profession to aspire to or be held up as a worthy activity for the chairman of a ''supposed'' family club.

[PurpleCanary 5,554]

[quote user="City1st"]ooops, jumped the gun there

It is illegal in this country to tout tickets for the 2012 Olympics - which is what the invisible man is suggesting can be done, albeit with the proviso that no tickets are actually on offer.

Rather a murky and sordid state of affairs, rather like what has happened pretty much most the past few years at poorman road.

But in agreement, it IS NOT illegal (nor is prostitution) but it hardly seems a profession to aspire to or be held up as a worthy activity for the chairman of a ''supposed'' family club.[/quote]City1st, one man''s ticket tout is another man''s purveyor of corporate sporting hospitality! And, for what it is worth, I would take a guess that there are a fair few posters on this message board who have bought tickets from such companies for sporting events such as the Ryder Cup or Lions tours or cricket tours.

[Bill 1,788]

I guess there area fair few who have used prostitutes as well. A fair few who maybe have driven whilst drunk, but almost all of them are NOT the chairman of a football club that projects itself as a family club.

[Evil Monkey 52]

There may be nothing illegal in it, but there might be a case for defamation with the wording as it is.  PC, you''d know more than most of us on that, though, what do you think?Mind, given that he''s often mentioned in the same breath as ''illegal arms dealer'', he may have bigger fish to fry?

[PurpleCanary 5,554]

[quote user="Evil Monkey"]There may be nothing illegal in it, but there might be a case for defamation with the wording as it is.  PC, you''d know more than most of us on that, though, what do you think?Mind, given that he''s often mentioned in the same breath as ''illegal arms dealer'', he may have bigger fish to fry?[/quote]Evil, as I said originally, there is nothing obviously defamatory in that article. Some people may regard "tout" as having nasty connotations (shabby men in raincoats hawking over-priced and questionably acquired tickets and all that) but it is nowhere near being actionable. Evans might well prefer to be called a supplier of corporate hospitality, or something similar, but if what he does is (quite legally) buy tickets for cultural and sporting events and then sell them on, as part of packages or whatever, then the short, simple word for that is tout.

[Bill 1,788]

Could anything said about the binners be considered defamatory ?