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I may have inadvertently called a Gillingham defender a midget in another thread. At the risk of starting an Office-stylee dwarf/elf/goblin/pixie debate, this might have been libellous and I apologise (tiny 2-line apology on Page 17).

There is a fine line - but it is also usually a clear line. And the word 'opinion' encompasses so many types of comment. The sentence 'In my opinion Tony Bloom is the worst chairman Brighton has ever had' is not libellous. It is idiotic, but not libellous because that comes under fair comment...

Thing is, everyone seemed to want it, so now they've got it. The internet/Twitter/Facebook awash with opinion presented as fact. In the 'old' days when what you read was normally written by trained journalists, opinion was clearly presented as opinion (often on a page helpfully headed 'opinion'...

If there are genuinely libellous and defamatory comments about individuals at the club on here that are untrue and would damage their reputation if left unchallenged, personally I would not have a problem with anyone at the club (or in life generally) defending their reputation. It is the...