Foreverinbluedreams wrote:Mikhail Chigorin wrote:MUS wrote:Oh my god, it's so positive
The hypocrisy is getting wider and more audacious.
It's like they don't even care how blatant it is anymore.
They've been allowed to get away with it unchecked, for so long now, that they think they're fireproof.
A few threatened lawsuits from City, wouldn't go amiss and might help concentrate a few minds.
On what grounds could we threaten a lawsuit though? Genuine question, I'm not well versed on this subject.
Apart from outright libel, where it could actually be proven, defamation is a legal world of it's own that might provide a lot of fun in this particular context.
I'm not talking about actually going to Court, merely slipping the possibility of it into a press conference, as a course of action we might be forced to consider and then sitting back to see if that gets us anywhere.
Two quotes from early 20th century chess players also seem appropriate :-
"No-one ever won a game by resigning" (Savielly Tartakower)
"The threat is stronger than the execution" (Aaron Nimzowitsch - talking about a particular move, rather than actually killing someone, I might add).