May 22, 201114 yr Injunctions should not be applied to celebs full stop. If Mr ManUFootballer didn't want the world or his wife to know he had his dick in Imogen Thomas he should have kept it in his y-fronts. He made his bed, it's time to lie in it. The only people who should have injunctions are people like Maxine Carr and the Bludger killers as revealing their identity or whereabouts would lead to their death. Hiding behind an injunction is cowardly and just ridiculous. Stupid law.
May 22, 201114 yr LOL Gareth Barry. No-one knew he had a superinjunction (well apart from rumours) now he's tried to sue a journalist and it's all come out. LOL. Tool.
May 22, 201114 yr Author LOL Gareth Barry. No-one knew he had a superinjunction (well apart from rumours) now he's tried to sue a journalist and it's all come out. LOL. Tool. Oh, is THAT who that injunction is? Someone told me earlier it was Beckham.
May 22, 201114 yr Gareth Barry is now Trending on Twitter. If you hiding behind an injunction like a c**t, never sue and bring attention to yourself. It only backfires.
May 23, 201114 yr From Sky: David Cameron said the Government will look at the problem but added there was no "simple answer" and ministers needed to take "some time out". He also indicated that he knew the identity of the footballer linked to a superinjunction surrounding Big Brother star Imogen Thomas "like everybody else", during an interview on ITV's Daybreak. Newspapers are expected to return to the High Court later to try and overturn a superinjunction taken out by a Premier League footballer. It follows the publication of the footballer's name and photograph in a Scottish newspaper, the Sunday Herald. The married star, referred to as CTB in court documents, is alleged to have had a "sexual relationship" with Miss Thomas. The newspaper printed his face with his eyes blacked out and the word "censored" written over the top. Beneath the picture they wrote: "Everyone knows this is the footballer accused of using the courts to keep allegations of a sexual affair secret." Mr Cameron said: "It is rather unsustainable, this situation, where newspapers can't print something that clearly everybody else is talking about, but there's a difficulty here because the law is the law and the judges must interpret what the law is. "What I've said in the past is, the danger is that judgements are effectively writing a new law which is what Parliament is meant to do. "So I think the Government, Parliament has got to take some time out, have a proper look at this, have a think about what we can do, but I'm not sure there is going to be a simple answer." Mr Cameron suggested that one route might be to strengthen the Press Complaints Commission. In an editorial, the Sunday Herald said it was "unsustainable" for newspapers not to be able to print information which is available on the internet. PR consultant Max Clifford told Sky News: "The whole thing is developing into a Whitehall farse because everybody knows who he is. "The lawyers have made the situation worse by going after Twitter." The privacy order protecting the footballer's identity has been publicly flouted, especially online where thousands of people have tweeted the man's name on Twitter. The player's lawyers are now taking action against the social media site and users who may have breached the court order. The Sunday Herald argued it was not breaking the law by publishing the story because the injunction does not apply in Scotland. No complaints have yet been made about the paper's story to the Attorney General. A spokesman for the Attorney General said: "The Attorney is aware of the publication in Scotland which has attracted attention. "He has received no complaint or referral from any parties or by any court." --- So the Herald did name him :o I couldn't find any copies yesterday. I love that the difference between Scots Law and English Law is being used to help show the utter retardation of Super-injunctions.
May 23, 201114 yr Author Giggs' "secret" is out - Lib Dem MP John Hemming just named him in Parliament.
May 23, 201114 yr The problem is: Normal celeb cheats: On the front of the paper for a day if that Footballer cheats: On the front of the paper and everywhere for weeks, blown out of proportion and all sorts of made up $h!t (see Rooney) Thing is if it was someone like Rooney and Ashley Cole I'd say he'd deserve all the $h!t but well Ryan Giggs shies away from being in the papers etc. (apart from football matters) so I see why he imparticular tried to get it but well he shouldn't have got it and instead its just made it all worse! Solution: Don't do it in the first place. Anyway no one seems to care anyway it seems and Gareth Barry has stopped trending on twitter. Has it got to the point where there is so many stories on footballers cheating that its stopped making an impact? Time for journalists to get a life and write some real news maybe? I certainly don't feel the same way that I did in the past when this kind of thing was reported. Edited May 23, 201114 yr by Grandwicky
May 23, 201114 yr Thing is, if he had just owned up when the whole thing started no one would even give a crap now. The public are incredibly fickle and get over these things pretty quickly once they're out.
May 23, 201114 yr Author Thing is, if he had just owned up when the whole thing started no one would even give a crap now. The public are incredibly fickle and get over these things pretty quickly once they're out. Plus, it's reached a LOT more people than if it was just some normal affair tabloid story. The BBC probably wouldn't've reported it AT ALL if he'd just not tried to hide it... but now that it's turned into such a big event, it's their top story.
May 23, 201114 yr The reason with why Giggs is such a big issue, is because of the lengths that he has done to keep his affair under wraps. Also Imogen Thomas is a C-list celeb so the papers picked up on it, and then when he started to sue Twitter, well he was only asking for trouble! Also his reputation. It's unexpected. Pete Doherty getting arrested is compeltely normal. A well respected family fan having a long standing affair is not. It's unexpected. Also it's quite funny.
May 23, 201114 yr Author About an hour ago, a judge said the injunction should remain in place - even though the media is now freely reporting it! :lol: Bizarre.
May 23, 201114 yr Poor Imogen, feel so sorry for her after all this, that footballer should be ashamed. He is an utter slag. Edited May 23, 201114 yr by Jimmie
May 23, 201114 yr Lol. RIDICULOUS. There's not a person in the country who doesn't know it's Ryan Giggs [i'm in Scotland where your silly injunction doesn't cover me, TRY AND SUE ME] that screwed Imogen. Utterly pointless.
May 23, 201114 yr They can't sue now? It's all over the media. The newspapers didn't reveal it - somebody else did lol. Anyway there's an absolutely QUALITY picture going round Facebook at the moment.
May 23, 201114 yr They can't sue now? It's all over the media. The newspapers didn't reveal it - somebody else did lol. Anyway there's an absolutely QUALITY picture going round Facebook at the moment. Can you post it?
May 23, 201114 yr Author They can't sue now? It's all over the media. The newspapers didn't reveal it - somebody else did lol. Anyway there's an absolutely QUALITY picture going round Facebook at the moment. Is it the Dongle one!?
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