Rebekah Vardy’s decision to sue Coleen Rooney for libel will be remembered as one of the biggest own goals in UK legal history.
By insisting on a full trial in the glare of the international media, Vardy transformed a social media spat into a full-scale war of the WAGs in which her own reputation was damaged, perhaps irretrievably.
Aside from an estimated £3 million legal bill, the 40-year-old has managed to set in concrete that she was secretly leaking stories to the media about a fellow footballer’s wife and plotting to release stories about her husband’s teammates.
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