Footballers super-injunction

[ken dodds dog]

It seems crazy that the papers can report that two people had an affair; one is Imogen Thomas and we can tell you who the other one is. She's getting more attention now than she would have if they'd just named the guy in the first place, as all the attention would probably have been on him as he's obviously more high profile.

The point you all seem to be missing is that she is worth a wallop.

[Rafa Justice]

Imogen just needs to tell a few mates, who let it slip in the pub etc. There's no injunction against that and no reasonable expectation issues either. Once its in the public domain anyway the media can report that as speculation etc.

No they can't. Go to Google, type in Ryan Giggs and see what the first auto-suggestion is. It's common knowledge on Twitter and Facebook, foreign press/gossip websites are naming him. All this and yet the English press can't do it.

The attempt to overturn the injunction should have come from that angle, not from a fairness to Imogen angle. Would have stood a better chance for the judge to hear how utterly worthless his first ruling is.

[dom9]

I don't have a problem with a 'super-injunction' in principle, but the fact that it's only rich people who can afford them is so ****ing wrong. What's £50,000 got to do with right and wrong? Sickening.

Maybe, but I doubt the News Of The World will be intereted in the salatious details of mine or your private lives either.

If you ever need a super-injunction, I would be flabergasted.

[Shaggy]

BREAKING: According to Bloomberg, the unnamed married footballer involved in the Imogen Thomas case is suing Twitter http://bit.ly/jFRZ90

[Kenneth]

Good luck with that Ryan.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

He'll lose, the cunt.

[Rudo]

Good luck with that Ryan.

[kris90210]

You would think that this would jeopordise his anonymity, surely?

[little dave hedgehog]

journalists genuinely don't have anything better to do, do they?

[Rafa Justice]

**** me, this story would be over if he'd never got the injunction. RYAN GIGGS (****ing sue me you chimp) has ensured the consequences will be much worse when it eventually breaks in the press.

Also, when you now type Imogen Thomas into Google, the auto complete turns itself off. Are we in North Korea now?

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

Aye, journalists are cunts too. I've experienced it myself

[Buzzo]

The whole super-injunction thing is bull****. It is for the super-rich to keep their affairs private. As Lord Neuberger said "Where secrecy is ordered, it should only be to the extent strictly necessary to achieve the interests of justice". None of this is happening in the name of Justice.

All this is, is a bunch of rich footballers who don't want their wifes to find out they have been shagging around. Theses guys should take their chances like the rest of us would have to, or practice policing their cocks better.

Total waste of everyones time (except Lawyers who will charge astronomical fees).

Suing Twitter.... FFS Ryan admit you've been found out. Your Halo is ****ing dented, and you are a dirty shagging *******.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

Do you think his wife knows?

[ChesterDave]

Why is it ok for the cheating married bloke to have his name withheld but the woman he's shagging is named and shamed? Yes, she shouldn't be shagging a married man but he's as much to blame as her.

Usual bull**** from sexist dinosaur judges.

I would hazard a guess in many of the cases they are the ones doing the shouting and are anything but shamed about it.

Imogen Thomas is whinging about how she is named but he gets away with it yet she is hardly trying to keep her head down and stay out of the limelight, is she?

[TheStig]

Also, when you now type Imogen Thomas into Google, the auto complete turns itself off. Are we in North Korea now?

Works for me... and still comes up with the name as the first suggestion!

What a plank for suing Twitter it'll never work .

The player is already involved in legal proceedings against the Sun newspaper and the former Big Brother star Imogen Thomas. He is now taking action against the social networking site for allegedly publishing information covered by a super-injunction.

The player, identified only by the initials CTB, has lodged papers at the High Court.

CTB?