Publiched on the official club website www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk the letter written by the club's lawyers reads
Dear Sirs
Langston Group Corporation v Cardiff City Football Club Limited (HC07C02168)
In responding to you, it is important we put your request in context. The claim itself is entirely opportunistic. Your application for summary judgment is and always has been inappropriate and misplaced. Your pre-emptive publicity campaign against the Club, and tactics, from the outset, have been designed to pressure the Club to make payments to your client to which it is not entitled. Your client should withdraw the proceedings and pay our client's costs.
The Club has robustly defended itself, and will continue to do so. That said, it has sought to engage in a dialogue with a view to resolving the matter, as it is obliged to do under the Civil Procedure Rules. However you and your client have conducted proceedings in an obstructive manner and your client has refused to engage with the Club or PMG in any meaningful discussions.
Your client's actions have placed the Club under severe financial strain and the proposed adjournment merely exacerbates matters. It is manifestly evident that your client has no regard for the Club, its supporters, players, employees, shareholders or other creditors.
But for the proposed adjournment, our client is entirely confident that it would succeed at summary judgment on Monday. Your client's unwillingness to proceed on Monday gives rise to a strong inference that it believes it will be unsuccessful and will have to pay the Club's costs.
In the circumstances our client has no intention of wasting further costs on the application and therefore very reluctantly agrees to adjourn on the terms proposed in your letter.
Consistent with avoiding further waste of costs, the Club does not intend to appear at court on Monday. No disrespect is intended to the court, and whilst we will write directly to the court, we ask you to ensure that this letter is drawn to the court's attention.
Clearly any re-listed hearing needs to be fixed in accordance with our Counsel's availability.
Yours faithfully
NABARRO
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The BBC then received a statement from Langstone which reads
"The true position is that Cardiff City Football Club failed to serve its evidence in accordance with... the court rules.
"It is a consequence of the club's failures that have led to the summary judgment hearing being deferred to another date.
"The club could have ensured that there was no reason for the summary judgment to be deferred but, for whatever reason, was not in a position to make sure that it presented its evidence in a timely manner which complied with the rules of the court.
"It failed to do what it should have done.
"Langston remains confident that it will successfully recover the monies that are due to it."
So we are still left with two sides claiming to be right. Both claiming the other side are the ones responsible for the deferment. And right in the midle, Cardiff City and it's supporters.
Let's hope this sorry mess is sorted before the club is obliterated.