Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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BBC breaking news
A married footballer named on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with reality TV star Imogen Thomas is identified by an MP as Ryan Giggs
Injunctions debate:
23 May 2011 Last updated at 17:12
A married footballer named on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with a reality TV star has been named in Parliament by Lib Dem MP John Hemming as Ryan Giggs.
Mr Hemming named him during an urgent Commons question on privacy orders.
Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player.
Marek
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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He should have just let it pass, it would have been old chip paper by now.... does anyone actually care ?
Been nice knowing you :)
Brian Dixon
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........not really.........
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i must admit to a sense of relief that my super injunction covering all the supermodels that have seduced me is still in place.
i would like to keep my reputation intact.
Ross Miller
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been common knowledge to the twittering classes for weeks
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Jan Higgins
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If it had not been for the curiosity aroused by the injunction it would have been the story that never was. Who really cares what some overpaid footballer does off the pitch.
The majority of these stories are non stories, I could not care less who is bonking who while the wife/husband is at home.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There have been a lot of hints in the papers too.
One columnist had the injunction story and then as a seperate story on the same page had a picture of Giggs saying how nice his wife was in a pointed reference. Forget which paper it was.
Not being a football fan I had never heard of him before this.
If he had just kept it in his pants this wouldn't be happening!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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people keep using the word about ryan giggs being "overpaid".
the truth of the matter is that he is probably one of the few players who actually is extremely talented and gives 100% week in and week out, and is loyal to the club he joined as a schoolboy.
hard to imogen how things have gone wrong for him.
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
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The reality is that if most of us were honest we wouldnt care what he does off the field of play and in fact for many they dont care what he does on it. The papers seem to think (with some foundation based on circulation) that what we want to read is salacious tittle tattle about the private lives of the rich and maybe famous
I for one would rather read some news
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Bern
Ok and Hello have a following for those who like their rubbish tittle tattle as a result the rest of the media seem to believe the majority of the public are interested in celebs lives. Most people do not care.
Howard he might be talented and loyal to his club, so he should be for the money he and other "top" players receive. One weeks wages would be more than a lot of people earn in a year.
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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It's not just a discussion about tittle tattle about footballers and minor celebs, which some people are interested in anyway and comes with the job for those whose career depends on publicity and popular support.
The injunction about Fred Goodwin was trying to hide behaviour that might have affected the way he ran the bank, and there's another one in force relating to someone with control of an even larger organisation.
The main point is the eroding of the principle of freedom of speech to report and comment on facts which are true - there are other laws to deal with those which are untrue.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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No one seems to be considering the moral attitude of these married men and how it affetcs their families.
Surely it isn't right (or fair on their family) that they can go off sleeping with who they like and expect no consequences. Do they love their wife and children (if they have any) or not, why treat them in this way ?
The wives and children don't deserve to be treated like this and they (the footballer or whatever) shouldn't expect to "get away with it".
I'm not a bible bashing bloke, I just think these guys are morally corrupt and have no respect for their wives and families - otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Roger
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Roger
I totally agree with your comments above however compare Giggs actions to those of Laws both had cheated on their wives,one with Miss Wales and one with a Mr Right but Laws compounded his unfaithfulness by defrauding the tax payer.
I'd rather support Giggs who paid to protect his family rather than Laws.
Marek
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Bern - you are quite right about keeping it in his pants but looking at her I suspect she could tempt a saint!!!
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Ross the newspapers seee the loss of a huge revenue stream with these super injunctions. We live in an era of 24hour TV News, widespread internet information and news updated every second...so a big part of what newspapers do now is report on celebrity sleaze...and make no mistake we consume it on a large scale.
Sales soar with a good sleaze story.Everything from gossip on the Royals, to Paddy Pantsdown ( remember that one), to Rooney and his pecadillos and sales take off. The footballer ones are pretty good and yes probably bring out the worst in us...we love to see these overpaid eejits get their tender assets caught in the ringer!
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
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You may well be right Roger, but the point surely is that it is none of our business, unless they are being hypocrites or are breaking the law. it is only the business of them their partners, their solicitors and the family court.
There is no public interest in most of these cases and they should not be getting reported, however there is a distinction in the case of MPs and people such as Fred Goodwin
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the tabloids love this stuff, two recent headlines concerning mr goodwin were "fred the bed" and "the bonking banker".
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Here is a picture of the MP who spilled the beans...as mentioned by Marek at the top of the page.. John Hemming MP. The revelations under parliamentary privilege did not go down well with his colleagues, whether Conservative or Libdem. The chap is a Libdem. But his birdlike features are now famous where we had never heard of him before...the Speaker was not amused and gave him then oul wagging finger, as he was clearly flouting the law. A law now in shreds.
His actions however released the floodgates and now we are all able to talk openly about it..ermmm hopefully without ending up in jail as the injunction is still in place. The newspapers went for it all hammer and tongs though today..as did the BBC.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well he's had his 15 minutes of fame.so now he can slink back into the commons dark corridors.
Marek
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