Adver News: Wray set to act on 'cheat' slur

[ghanimah]

Its not sub judice until a trial date is set is it?

I think a full retraction and apology is more likely anyway.

Yes indeed, hidden away on page 7 at bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.

[suttonred]

Well I'm not taking the chance...lawyers are right up there in the cunt stakes with bankers, politicians, and journalists.

You forgot supermarkets and council parking departments ( this could go on and on...)

[Ardiles]

I think a full retraction and apology is more likely anyway.

I hope you're right, but the apology will need to be at least as prominent as the original article and unequivocal.  When you accuse someone of being a cheat, you impugn their character.  Very different from the usual circumstances of a newspaper retraction, which more usually concern a basic & mundane factual inaccuracy.

[Reg Smeeton]

You forgot supermarkets and council parking departments ( this could go on and on...)

I'm inclined to include OB, after a recent needless festive harrassment, which probably cost me a shag.

[Cookie]

Inclined? Everyone knows the OB are cunts. Put that Uniform on someone who, in probability were bullied at school, and they seem to think they can do what they want.

[Bob's Orange]

I'm inclined to include OB, after a recent needless festive harrassment, which probably cost me a shag.

You are aware rape is illegal Reginald?

[Flashheart]

FootballLeaguePaper ‏@TheLeaguePaper
To all those posting with regard to Chris Dunlavy's article in Sunday's Paper: The editor is currently in contact with Swindon Town FC.

[Flashheart]

FootballLeaguePaper ‏@TheLeaguePaper
As correspondence with Swindon Town Football Club is ongoing we shall be making no further statement on the matter at the present time.

[Flashheart]

I got a reply:

I understand your complaint fully and we are in the process of making remedies. Chris Dunlavy is writing an apology in the paper and we have contacted Swindon Town FC.

 

Ironically, Chris Dunlavy has always been a champion of Swindon; in this instance his zeal to criticise clubs who live beyond their means has carried him away to make clearly unfounded, and deeply regretted, statements about the club.

 

His intention had been to raise the wider issue of insolvency and debt in football, and more precisely the need for clubs to move towards self-sustainability.

 

He saw Sir William Patey’s reported comments about administration and used this as the basis for his remarks. He chose the wrong target.

 

David Emery

[london_red]

He chose the wrong target.

 

[suttonred]

Bet their offices have sparkling white toilets

[Ardiles]

I got a reply:

I understand your complaint fully and we are in the process of making remedies. Chris Dunlavy is writing an apology in the paper and we have contacted Swindon Town FC.

Ironically, Chris Dunlavy has always been a champion of Swindon; in this instance his zeal to criticise clubs who live beyond their means has carried him away to make clearly unfounded, and deeply regretted, statements about the club.

His intention had been to raise the wider issue of insolvency and debt in football, and more precisely the need for clubs to move towards self-sustainability.

He saw Sir William Patey’s reported comments about administration and used this as the basis for his remarks. He chose the wrong target.

David Emery

Have to say that is a decent response.  No quibble.  He understands that the article was wrong and, based on that, I would expect the apology and the retraction to be unambiguous.

There is, of course, the matter of editorial control...and how it clearly failed in this instance.  David Emery is partly responsible here; not entirely fair to lay the blame wholly at the writer's door.  But that is more a matter for the FLP.  As a Swindon Town supporter, and someone who would back Jeremy Wray to the hilt on most things, all I really care about is that the record is set straight and the unfounded accusations made against the club that I love withdrawn.

[pauld]

Have to say that is a decent response.  No quibble.  He understands that the article was wrong and, based on that, I would expect the apology and the retraction to be unambiguous.

Totally agree. Full and fulsome apology. And he's right that it was a good piece about the way some clubs use Administration as a way of avoiding debts, but he chose the wrong peg to hang it off, meaning it went from "reasonably good if unoriginal article on financial doping in general" to "utter horseshit and massively libellous attack on totally the wrong target".

So long as they use that as the apology, give it equal prominence to the original article and accompany it with full colour photos of Jeremy Wray horsewhipping the journalist, all's well that ends well.

Next up - talkShite.

[Stegenfreud]

I recieved the same reply. From the tone it would appear that it is being dealt with seriously, which is good.

[BruceChatwin]

I got a reply:

Yeah I got the same one.

Seems a reasonable enough man who understands what went wrong and is trying to get it sorted. The true test though will be what appears in the next edition of the paper. They can't just bury an apology in a corner somewhere. At the very least it should be the main feature of Mr. Dunlavy's column to counterbalance the original article.