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Plenty of others have been given awards for less.

 

I noticed, age shall weary them.

 

To be honest, it's worth two posts, it's such an awful decision.

 

There have certainly been worse decisions. I remember about 20 years ago we won the ashes at cricket and every single player got either an MBE or OBE. There was one player who only played one game and I think scored about 5 runs, yet he still got an MBE.

 

Yeah but it’s Ashes cricket and beating the Aussies - totally well deserved I’d have also given it the kit man !! LOL

 

Alan Nixon is currently threatening to sue an account called 'South Stand Pies' on Twitter, as they've accused him of taking £1000 per story from Sheffield Wednesday to 'distribute spin on what's going on' pretty funny reading

 

not even in the same league!

 

ReluctantThicko. What a penis.

 

Don't tell him Pike.

 

Step son told me about this earlier. You do have to wonder.

 

"I'm going to sue you...just as soon as you DM me all your information and your identity, because otherwise there's nothing I can do about it."

What a ****ing prat.

 

He can get a court order for X to disclose his identity

 

Norwich Pharmacal Orders can cost up to ten grand. Assuming that’s even successful, the original tweet doesn’t even meet the threshold for libel. He’s made himself look an even bigger twat than most people already know him as.

 

I doubt he'll go that far, plus it doesn't say much for the whole freedom of speech absolutist crowd on X if they're just going to jump on somebody making a claim without evidence (unless this user has provided some since I last checked).

 

why not?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich_Pharmacal_order

 

so you think somebody should be able to libel someone without any evidence?

 

What? What does it matter what I think? My thoughts aren't the point, the point is that given all the bullshit that is said on X, Nixon is going to have a hard time getting this off the ground because he's, rather unbelievably, having to ask the person he wants to sue for their details.

As Joey Barton is currently finding out, there are repercussions to slandering people, but Joey Barton has the massive misfortune of being Joey Barton and didn't do it anonymously. He decided to call Eni Aluko a DEI hire, called her and her female co-commentator "the Fred and Rose West of commentary" and then called Jeremy Vine a nonce.

Some random account on X making a claim probably isn't going to be worth his time if it isn't true. Though because he's come out all guns blazing, it now makes him look more suspect than if he had waved it away out of hand.

 

Well it is worrying if that is what you think
If the pie guy doesnt give his details the cost of any action to find out will be added to the claim
If Joey Barton could justify his claims then he would be in the clear
If the pie guy cant justify it then he wont be in the clear
Joey Barton didnt slander anybody - he libelled them

 

I wouldnt bother suing the pie guy. I'm sure the pie guy cant justify his statement. Some people just see lying as the most useful tool they have.