The current lawsuit proposes a new question of whether a fan has standing against a professional team alleging harm based on its internal decision to set its lineup.
And they say that created the positive economy of the late 1980s and set up conditions for such a strong economy in the 1990s that gridlock did no harm, since further government action was not needed.
Sources close to Mr Hunt tell me he is powerless to block the takeover on those grounds, because Business Secretary Vince Cable set the terms of the investigation of the takeover as being exclusively about whether the deal would harm plurality or choice in the media.