Its done for 2 reasons, firstly because Morris is for obvious reasons despised locally and he's attempting, you could argue cynically, to appear to do something positive. More importantly if Gibson doesn't back down, then Derby will go into liquidation at the end of the month.
Boro and Wycombe have now said they'll settle for a combined £7m, but there isn't a buyer who wants to pay that on top of underwriting the enormous football and revenue debts. PP is owned by a Morris company secured against a £20m loan, what he could do is reduce the price of the ground by £7m and essentially indirectly pay them off himself, but because he and Gibson is personal and the claim in itself is bollocks he doesn't want to do that. My guess is that is what will happen before they go under though.
Boro and Derby have one of those rivalries that other fans don't know about a bit like Wolves and Bolton
