[Claymores]

Originally Posted by Zippy

Rubbish.

There are often other people inadvertently involved like wives and children who are totally innocent and suffering enough already. Why should their names be dragged through the media?

Each case is different but there's certainly a need for such injunctions sometimes.

If you don't really want to screw around with a cheap ex-Miss Wales then why do it? It was gonna get into the papers. The wife deserves to know if he's messed about with a z-lister

[Omah]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technol...#ixzz1N2HREr1f

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.

[Omah]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...g-Twitter.html

The number of tweets about a Premier League footballer who attempted to gag discussion on Twitter of his alleged affair with Imogen Thomas have reached 30,000.

[arista]

Yes what is his name?

[Omah]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes what is his name?

Blackpool FC fans may know .....

[Tom4784]

It was always going to get out really, I'm guessing it's more to keep the press at bay now.

[billy123]

Todays herald is funny if the dumbass hadnt of behaved like such a smacked arse about it nobody would have cared less and it would be forgotten about by now.

[Lee.]

Does anybody really care??

I do think the wife has a right to know she's married to a cheating scumbag but on the other hand I don't think these cheap wannabe wag types should get away with sleeping with other womens husbands and then making a fortune from selling the story..

[arista]

Originally Posted by happyland

Does anybody really care??

I do think the wife has a right to know she's married to a cheating scumbag but on the other hand I don't think these cheap wannabe wag types should get away with sleeping with other womens husbands and then making a fortune from selling the story..

Yes they want to Hiss at him.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by bobnot

Todays herald is funny if the dumbass hadnt of behaved like such a smacked arse about it nobody would have cared less and it would be forgotten about by now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13491086

Sunday Herald names footballer accused on Twitter

The Sunday Herald is the first mainstream UK publication to do this.

Its front page has an image of a man whose eyes are covered with a black bar which features the word "censored".

It comes after Twitter users reacted to a footballer's attempt to find out who is putting information about him on the website by posting new messages online.

In its editorial explaining the move, the Sunday Herald said it named the sportsman being linked to the injunction on Twitter because it was "unsustainable" for newspapers to be prevented from sharing information which is easily available on the internet.

Richard Walker, editor of the Sunday Herald, said: "It seems to us a ludicrous situation where we are supposed to keep from our readers the identity of someone who anybody can find out on the internet at the click of a mouse, and in fact many people have already done so."

He added that he had taken extensive legal advice and was not expecting any legal consequences because the injunction was not valid in Scotland - only in England.

[patsylimerick]

It seems to have moved away entirely from the issue of the morality or immorality of the affair and onto a much more serious discussion about the level of dopiness and ego involved in going to such lengths to keep it quiet. This will surely go down in sporting history as one of the most remarkable own goals of all time.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by patsylimerick

It seems to have moved away entirely from the issue of the morality or immorality of the affair and onto a much more serious discussion about the level of dopiness and ego involved in going to such lengths to keep it quiet. This will surely go down in sporting history as one of the most remarkable own goals of all time.

..... and one of the most expensive, when the player's legal bills (currently Ł300k) come in, along with cost of any repurcussions, e.g. loss of sponsorship, divorce and settlement, etc .....

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by bobnot

Todays herald is funny if the dumbass hadnt of behaved like such a smacked arse about it nobody would have cared less and it would be forgotten about by now.

It's clearly Drogba

[Shaun]

think it might be Celestine Babayaro.

[James]

I don't understand how it is any of the public's business to know if a footballer has been having an affair with an ex-BB HM.

It is just gossipy tittle-tattle.

Another problem with the reporting of this case is that the press have a huge axe to grind.

[Zippy]

Originally Posted by Claymores

If you don't really want to screw around with a cheap ex-Miss Wales then why do it? It was gonna get into the papers. The wife deserves to know if he's messed about with a z-lister

of course the wife deserves to know but it doesn't have to be via the tabloids! Theyre two separate issues.

anyways..

at this point its a complete farce. Everybody knows who it is and the utter idiot just keeps drawing more attention to himself by trying to control the whole media world! Nobody can control the internet and its pathetic and arrogant to even try.

He deserves to be strung out now for his continued stupidity. Ive never thought the person themselves deserved protection for their own outrageous behaviour(they chose to do it knowing the consequences) but their family and children did. At this point though his name is out there so its too late.

[BB_Eye]

Great related article by Nick Cohen on Fred "no remorse" Goodwin trying to silence those blowing the whistle on his sexual improprieties as head of RBS.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ns?INTCMP=SRCH
This man is bullying corporate scum writ large and nobody is allowed to talk about what he was doing when RBS were sinking Britain into the worst financial crisis in living memory.

[Omah]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz1N8GrsHtN

BRITAIN'S worst-kept secret was close to becoming public knowledge last night as a footballer said to be trying to silence a Big Brother beauty over an affair saw his legal battle descend into farce.

Thousands of soccer fans mocked his alleged efforts to conceal his shame with a court injunction by launching lewd terrace CHANTS about the gag on sexy Imogen Thomas, 28. The ace's wife was in the stadium.

[billy123]

Originally Posted by Iceman

It's clearly Drogba

are you mad! its not hard to see its gos from big brother 4.

[billy123]

Originally Posted by James

I don't understand how it is any of the public's business to know if a footballer has been having an affair with an ex-BB HM.

It is just gossipy tittle-tattle.

Another problem with the reporting of this case is that the press have a huge axe to grind.

I dare say nobody would really give a damn who he was romping with it would have been reported in the gossip rags and have been forgotten by now.

Its his arrogant smacked arse attitude and the fact that he thinks he has the right to basically tell other people to shut up that has made him both a target and a laughing stock.

Its not about privacy its about freedom of speech.

What a shame he nearly got to retirement as a respected footballer but now he will just be remembered as another tosspot footballing brat.

[Omah]

The football star who had an affair with Imogen Thomas was being named every second on Twitter last night - making a mockery of a High Court judge's ban.

It means pressure on the sporting idol is becoming intense to admit he cheated on his wife with Big Brother star Imogen and tried to hush it up.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-sto...#ixzz1NA9vZm5X

[Omah]

http://www.thejournal.ie/newspapers-...41612-May2011/

BRITAIN’S NEWSPAPERS ARE set to return to the High Court in London today in a fresh bid to unmask the footballer behind a superinjunction barring them from publishing details of an alleged affair.

The new attempt to have the gag lifted follows the decision of a Scottish Sunday tabloid newspaper to print a photograph of the footballer in question on its front page – only barely concealing his face, and making it clear that the footballer was the one at the centre of the row.

Within hours of the paper being published, users were circulating photographs of its front page online – further undermining the effect of the gag.

Today, Sky News reports, the newspapers are expected to return to the courts arguing that the publication of the details in a neighbouring jurisdiction has conclusively undermined the credibility of the superinjunction.

BBC News adds that the UK’s attorney general is not considering legal action against the Sunday newspaper in question, giving further credence to the idea that the injunction is simply now unworkable.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by happyland

Does anybody really care??

I do think the wife has a right to know she's married to a cheating scumbag but on the other hand I don't think these cheap wannabe wag types should get away with sleeping with other womens husbands and then making a fortune from selling the story..

Good comment,I agree with this.

[Omah]

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/864060-i...footballer-row

Speaking on ITV's Daybreak, Mr Cameron said the government and parliament will now look at bringing in new legislation to cover privacy laws.

However, on the same day that newspaper editors are seeking to have married footballer CTB's super-injunction overturned by the High Court, the prime minister warned there would be no 'simple answer'.

He 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 judgments are effectively writing a new law which is what parliament is meant to do.
David Cameron Daybreak super-injunction Imogen Thomas Mr Cameron was asked about super-injunctions on Daybreak (ITV)

'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.

Mr Cameron said the emergence of Twitter and other social networks as genuine drivers of the national agenda has changed the way the press operates - and hinted UK legislation should move with the times.

[Beastie]

No.