So England's Brave John Terry had an affair with Wayne Bridge's girlfriend. What a brave boy! And he got her pregnant! And paid for an abortion! Brave little soldier.
Actually, I'm not sure anyone's worried about the morals of the whole piece; it's far too removed from reality for any normal person to care about. A rich man had an affair with an attractive woman? French underwear models, childhood sweethearts, cuckolded team-mates? Heard it all before, really. It's all a bit Footballer's Wives. What people are upset about is the fact that he tried to cover it up. Not so brave on that count, were we John?
Going to court to get a super-injunction to stop the papers printing details of the affair was his biggest mistake. You don't tell the tabloid press they can't do something: they don't like it. And he also gave all the papers plenty of time to get their stories together; his affair was an open secret. So when the super-injunction got overturned, the whole of Fleet Street simply printed the stories they'd had for weeks and John Terry ended up on the front page of every tabloid newspaper on Saturday and Sunday. They saved the bit about the abortion for the Sunday papers, just to upset him even more.
It was incredible. He even kept Tony Blair giving evidence at the Chilcot inquiry off the front page. A rich man having an affair with an attractive woman was bigger news than a former Prime Minister explaining why he took the country to war.
If he'd just admitted it at the time, he'd have still made a few front pages, but nothing like what happened at the weekend. That's what happens when you upset the newspapers, John. They get you.
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