So Digs is a cheat then...

[Blue-Bird]

Why do people with money think they will get away with it...!?

[netibiza]

He told his misses two weeks ago and she is (was?) standing by him, and it's not always about the money is it, she may love him and want to be at his side, may want the children to have a father. I just get annoyed that he was running rings around everyone just because he has money!

[jno]

sure there's a rule against adultery, jack - it's in the Bible. I wonder if all those people calling for Mr X's head really want all biblical rules enforced?

The death penalty for children who disobey their parents would be a good place to start (Deuteronomy 21).

[albaqwerty]

Oooh neti, I don't believe everything I read, but if he had told her, I'd have mopped the floor with him. And would still be doing it.

My BP is now higher than normal. She's single, he's married, she should have told him to burger off if she had any sense of self-worth and self-respect.

[netibiza]

when I first came to live here in Spain in 71 there was a law saying that one couldn't go with a married man, and if you were caught then you had to face the consequences!! You couldn't even kiss on the streets then, my how times have changed!!!

[netibiza]

jno, seems a good ruling to me.

[albaqwerty]

My personal favourite is 'Do unto others as you would have done unto to you' or words to that effect.

If I'd married a weak-willed lily-livered idiot I'd be kicking myself.

[Ellipsis]

> If it didn't take place, there would be no need for a super injunction.

Wow. Quite the opposite, I would have thought ...

Never mind, for a moment, whetther it was true or not. Do you believe in the right to a private life, as expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

http://www.un.org/en/.../udhr/index.shtml#a12

Article 12: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

[Sqad]

I was talking to a Spaniard at the Club today and we were discussing the Digs saga and he was telling me that it is well known that infidelity is common among the Spanish teams, but that there is an unwritten rule that for the sake of the families, teams and the national team, that the press does not expose them.

[pa___ul3]

bur Ellipsis, do you believe in the right to discuss your own private life?

[chelle7272]

Ellipsis - not disagreeing in principal, but if my OH had done the same thing and everyone I knew was gossiping could he or I be afforded the same protection of privacy?

[milly143]

From my very non legal perspective, if she said they had an affair and it was explicitly not true then all he has to do is immediately deny and get his lawyers to pay her a visit. I doubt papers would be interested in printing something unless she could provide some evidence and if it wasn't true, then she couldn't do that so it would be a non story.

It happened with Becks not long ago.

[Ellipsis]

I do pa___ul3, yes.

chelle7272, I'm sure those close to the footballer were also gossiping, and it may have been a bigger circle of people than would gossip about your family. The question is whether gossip is acceptable on such a grand scale, i.e. all over the press, and whether one person's privacy is another person's (or newspaper's) pay cheque ...

milly143, you only have to look at Max Mosley and Chris Jefferies to see how untrue stuff can and does get printed. My argument though is, even if this particular story is true (as assumed by the OP and throughout this thread), should it be printed?

This article is very helpful:

http://www.yourprivac...rRightsToPrivacy.html

It covers what's in the public interest. So had the footballer been an MP or a banker, for example, things might be different. But as a footballer, really, he was entitled to his privacy ...