[Omah]

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The sex-cheat footballer who is suing Twitter had turned himself into an international laughing stock by last night – named and ridiculed by defiant internet *users around the world.

The shamed star’s decision to take on the social networking site after posts named him as the “family man” player who cheated on his wife with ex-Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas backfired in spectacular fashion. Even people who had never heard of him were lampooning the Premier League ace’s farcical attempt to curb free speech.

The farcical situation means that if the player – only *referred to as CTB in legal documents – is selected for his team’s match this afternoon, virtually the entire stadium will know his identity. Rival fans were openly using websites to co-ordinate chants about him at today’s games.

Legal experts estimate the player has already spent around €228,037 on legal fees, but as everyone on Twitter can see trending topics, it means the site’s 200 million global users now know his guilty secret.

Websites outside the UK not covered by the court gagging order joined in the mass scramble to embarrass him. US Forbes magazine named the player directly, as did popular US gossip website Gawker.

Twitter is based in San Francisco, *effectively putting it out of the reach of British courts, in a country where the First Amendment enshrines the right to free speech. If he took action in California, he would be automatically named.