The Footballer is Named

But you’ll have to come to Scotland and purchase a copy of the (struggling) Sunday Herald to discover the identity of the “athlete” or “footballer” said to have been having an affair with some TV person of whom I had never previously heard.

Careless of CTB’s lawyers to forget to apply for an interdict at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. All Scottish papers have therefore been free to publish these details. If they haven’t it’s because they also sell (a few) copies south of the border. One trusts, then, that the Sunday Herald’s circulation manager has insisted no stray copies have been sent to Berwick or Longtown or Cornhill-on-Tweed.

Whether a judge would hold the Sunday Herald in breach of the English court’s order if someone were to purchase a copy of today’s paper in Glasgow and then take it into England where it might b read by other people is, I suppose, a matter of fine legal distinction and one for readers who are learned friends to discuss.