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to feel a little bit pleased that silly old Ryan Giggs' one man crusade is finally over?

66 replies

TheFlyingOnion · 23/05/2011 17:02

Radio 4's PM programme has begun with the presenter saying "Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs"

Oh dear, its all soooo much more of a clusterfuck because he didn't want to man up and come clean.

His poor poor poor wife and kids Sad

Hope she divorces him for everything he's got. Which will obviously be much less now his lawyers will have taken their cut.....

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shortround · 23/05/2011 19:13

Sherlock I thought mrs g was his childhood sweetheart? I didn't know he had history?

jackstarb · 23/05/2011 19:16

Apparently he's seeking another injunction - to keep the press from talking to him Hmm. I think his lawyers are milking him while they can.

ceebeegeebies · 23/05/2011 19:21

There is no way Mrs Giggs is going to do anything other than sit tight....all that parading around in red lipstick/tight dress last week (when she has always seemed to avoid publicity) shows what her intentions are. There is no way she didn't know it was him last week...

Although I had to enlighten my parents this weekend (although they do live in their own little bubble Wink) and another of my friends has just made a comment on FB so they clearly didn't know so obviously there are people in this country who didn't know Shock

SherlockMoans · 23/05/2011 19:21

shortround - I dont think so but really until this I hadnt given him enough thought to know the detailed ins & outs of his love life Grin

Hopefully he will now get over himself and think about his family rather than his "reputation"

SherlockMoans · 23/05/2011 19:22

MIL - nearly 80 asked DH if I knew who it was Grin..apparently its been a hot topic amongst the pensioners

tiredgranny · 23/05/2011 19:27

i thought he got his wife pregnant when he was with someone else then he did decent think n married her so she new what to expect perhaps the big house unlimited credit cards made up for it some people r prepared to live like that

TheCowardlyLion · 23/05/2011 19:28

shortround - this salubrious little story is still easily available on the internet - Giggs certainly doesn't appear to have a squeaky clean track record.

emmanumber3 · 23/05/2011 19:33

He was definitely, urm, "linked" to various women before his marriage. Whether his now wife was in the background whilst this was going on I don't know.

I totally agree that had he just admitted the affair weeks ago we would have skim-read the juicy details & forgotten all about it within days. Instead of being known as a great footballer he will now be predominantly known as a twat Sad.

jackstarb · 23/05/2011 19:35

It appears that the high court has with-held the superinjunction - how odd? This is the injunction that prevents us from knowing that Giggs even has an injunction in place.

< Let's shut all the doors to prevent the birds from flying out the window>

edam · 23/05/2011 19:38

I do hope his legal bill was worth it. What an idiot! Also hope twitter tells his crappy over-ambitious lawyers to take a running jump rather than release confidential user details - if he's so concerned about privacy, why is he seeking to invade the privacy of people who tweet?

brandnewme · 23/05/2011 19:39

Exactly - I'm sure, like 100's of people have said, if he'd just said 'yep, had an affair' no-one would give a stuff after 5 minutes of reading about it. What the hell has he been thinking?? Would also love to know what Sir Alex has been thinking too....oh to be a fly on the wall!!!

edam · 23/05/2011 19:40

The high court upheld the injuction this afternoon but that was before MP John Hemmings named Giggs in the Houses of Parliament. Now the media can report what the MP said. But reporting anything beyond that and whatever was already in the public domain is risky - although the courts would look even more stupid if they tried to prosecute anyone for contempt now.

Kendodd · 23/05/2011 19:45

I think as well as making Giggs look foolish this also makes the British legal system look foolish and the British legal system should have more sense.

jackstarb · 23/05/2011 19:46

Edam - according to Twitter, the judge upheld the injunction again this evening. Quite surreal.

Kendodd · 23/05/2011 19:49

Surely that can't be true?

Kendodd · 23/05/2011 19:49

What are they going to do, arrest everyone on Earth?

LineRunner · 23/05/2011 19:53

There is a feeling on some political blogs that the lawyers involved with advising Shag-and-Gagg-Man are way, way out of their depth.

RidinOnAPig · 23/05/2011 19:54

Actions = Consequences

My 11 month old understands that. Idiots.

jackstarb · 23/05/2011 19:56

"?@SkyNewsBreak: High Court refuses latest application by The Sun to have injunction preventing naming of footballer lifted.?

About 1 hour ago on Twitter

And yes, we all appear to be in contempt Shock.

And the British (well English) legal system is looking shaky.

LeQueen · 23/05/2011 19:59

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RobF · 23/05/2011 20:03

How much would his wife get in a divorce? They've only been married for a few years.

jackstarb · 23/05/2011 20:04

"There is a feeling on some political blogs that the lawyers involved with advising Shag-and-Gagg-Man are way, way out of their depth"

Agree linerunner - I never thought I'd say this, but he'd be better sacking his lawyers and getting himself a Max Clifford type PR (not Max obviously - Imogen's already got him).

An image overhaul, loads of grovelling, a new baby perhaps & he might just get himself a pundit job on Sky (or BBC Wales). Even a book on how he tried to take on Twitter and failed. You never know - stranger things have happened.

ArthurMcAffertyandhisCat · 23/05/2011 20:07

What a stupid pathetic mess.

He is a tosser who should have kept his dick in his pants if he didn't want people to find out. And then had the grace to let it go, rather than threatening to pursue 75,000 people for contempt of court, thereby confirming that he is in fact a fool as well as a cheat.

I don't have any real interest in who is sleeping with who - I get that people cheat. I don't approve, but it happens, and I'm not that interested in what random celebrities get up to. But I don't think the courts should be used to protect them and if they're that fucking worried about their wife and children finding out they shouldn't do it in the first place. As it his, the fallout for them is going to be far far greater than if he'd just accepted that once he'd shagged Ms Thomas, there was a better than evens chance she would go to the press...them's the breaks, Ryan.

Georgimama · 23/05/2011 20:12

Bet most MNers never thought they'd agree with Norman Tebbit. From his Telgraph blog today:

"Surely the right to a private family life is about one?s life within the family. When the matter over which an injunction against public awareness or comment is sought takes place outside the home and the family, it is no longer a part of private family life.
In short, if a husband and father goes out whoring on the streets, in a brothel, or through a public advertisement or agency providing services in what is now known as the sex industry, he has left the privacy of his home and entered a public marketplace."

Animation · 23/05/2011 20:13

Probably his wife knew already.

This may have been all about his IMAGE with the public.