Australian Football League side Essendon’s short-lived CEO Andrew Thorburn"has hired legal counsel and is pursuing legal action against the club" after he was forced to resign. Thorburn quit the Bombers "barely 24 hours after his appointment" following criticism of his role as chair of conservative church City on a Hill, which had hosted sermons likening abortion rates to the Holocaust and posted offensive views on the church’s website. Sources said lawyers for Thorburn and Essendon had "been in negotiations for weeks" over the circumstances of his departure from Essendon. Thorburn’s position "has hardened in recent times" with the former banker believing "the case is of religious discrimination" and wanting satisfaction for damage to his reputation. A spokesman for Thorburn on Thursday said the former banker declined to comment on retaining legal counsel and any legal action against Essendon. An Essendon spokesman also declined to comment (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 11/10).
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