to be thrilled that the lying scumbag footballer's photo is on the front page of The Herald!

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I've just bought it to have a read, but have scanned the article, and he's also named inside! Don't know how they got away with that. :)

Give it three months and he'll be doing a Walkers crisps advert with Linnekar with a black censored bar stuck over his eyes.

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The thing is, I do agree with basically everything you say, Lucy, but I do know that Wayne Rooney lost a lot of his endorsements when all the prostitute stories emerged - the companies back you cos you're a great player, but only if you've also got the right image

It would have been salacious titillation for a couple of days if he hadn't tried to gag the woman he shagged and the press. Think it's appalling he got his injunction by accusing Imogen Thomas of a criminal act - blackmail - without IT being given any chance to defend herself at all. What on earth was the judge thinking? Surely being accused of a crime is far more important than being accused of shagging around?

But the scary thing about superinjunctions isn't the kiss and tell stories, it's things like Fred Goodwin preventing anyone - including the regulator, the FSA from knowing about his behaviour as he ran RBS into the ground, costing the rest of us £40bn. Or Trafigura trying to prevent reporting of accusations that they dumped toxic waste in the Ivory Coast. Apparently Barclays has one, too (no idea if that's true, though). It's judges trying to gag MPs and overturn parliamentary privilege - completely unconstitutional.

The world we live in - rightly or wrongly - is all about building up and knocking down celebrities. If you do the crime, do the time!

It's the fact that Imogen WANTS to talk about it, and has every right to. I think those 'kiss and tell' girls are disgusting, personally, but if she wants to tell the world that she was shagging Ryan Giggs, he shouldn't be able to get the courts to stop her.

I agree with you edam

I really think the Fred Goodwin superinjunction was outrageous. He got a judge to cover up the fact he was shagging a colleague and noone was supposed to know. That is against The banking Code and is a sackable offence. The fact that during this affair he made the worst business decision in hte history of British banking, should be known by the everyone in this country.

I like hearing about the footballers, actors etc as it shows what a bunch of twats they are. But it doesn't really matter in the scheme of things. The Fred Goodwin injunction does matter.

I feel sorry for him. His lawyers have given him terrible advice, and they will be getting £££.

He just ends up looking like a complete twat. By all accounts the BB star had blackmailed him, and demanded money or she would sell the story to the highest bidder. He should have just let her, and then spent his time on repairing his marriage.

I wonder what the football fans will be chanting from the terraces today? I'm guessing he won't play, which is a shame because it is the last day of the season and he was tipped to be retiring today. Despite his personal life he has been a fantastic footballer, and I am no fan of his team.

And now I.T. Is saying that she did nothing of the sort. Superinjunctions have done nothing to help these people, but the lawyers have not done badly. It has sold more newspapers and generated more tweets than a typical Premier Footballer Love Rat story in a red top or celeb mag.

No, still don't see how this is in the public interest. The interest of gossip, perhaps. If he wishes to parade his marriage about and make out like he's doing well, get sponsorship money etc.. so what? Why is that public interest?
Don't get me wrong, am not defending him in any way, in fact I can't / wouldn't as I know nothing about it - try to avoid sleb shit like the plague... but I just don't see how it's public interest.

Depends which definition of "public interest " you are using

LOL. I'm the public. I'm not interested

(Although I get that I'll not be including so many in that!)

FWIW, I agree with edam and Quick, the whole injunction business and the curtailing of press freedom is important, as well as just plain wrong. I was referring to the inevitable agonizing and hypocritical hand-wringing that happens every time one of these seedy affairs come to light.

The whole idea of rich men being able to Shag and Gag is fucking wrong.

I think a lot of people in the"public" are interested though - otherwise it wouldnt be constantly in the news, mentioned on social networking sites etc etc. Lets face it, its humam nature to want to know "secrets" and Im no fan of football at all but am interested in this story because of the extraordinary lenghths he has gone to to try and cover up his affair. Whilst I get that some poeple have zero interest they should understand that others are interested.

Anyway it will be good to see what happens now, and if other newspapers here in Scotland carry on with what the Scottish Herald did today - making the so called super injunction (that he is still paying for apparantly) completetely pointless.

That's a point. D'you reckon "he who must not be named" is going to get a refund?

it was on scottish radio about it an hour ago, i don't much care about footballers or their private lives but it seems wrong that they can say X had affair she was the one but not with whom as he hhas superinjunction, slip up by his lawyers not applying in scotland, see previous comment re printing it in scotland but not england and not on web, but i actually can not be bothered to read herald to find out but am against superinjunctions to cover this up, i think superinjunctions are occasionally right but should be available for scrutiny just not published should be for privacy yes but for everyone if necessary I would support it more for like not revealing x's wife/child has cancer more than to cover an affair. I don't agree with the war in afghanistan but I think press was wrong to reveal prince harry was there, but unless it can be policed adequately what's the point having a uk injunction when it can be published in NY/ paris/ syndey

From what i read it there are two footballers suing Twitter. Who's the other one?

smallwhitecat - it was the bankers who brought the international economy crashing to the ground, if you want to call anyone silly it should be them, surely? At the time of the crash none of the heads of any of the banks in the worst trouble had any effing qualifications in banking. Including Goodwin, IIRC. Terry Wogan was more qualified to run a bank than any of them!

Completely with edam on this.

I wonder how they all think they can keep it a secret,nobody has managed it so far,then again we wouldnt know if they had i dont care much,it bothers me more as a female the women who choose to remain with the disloyal twunts,i hope my dd's would have more about themselves.