i can't comment on the legal situation here with scandals involving celebs blah but i do find it rather strange
back in Cali there's a huge rape trial involving Kobe Bryant who's a MAJOR sports star. He plays for the Lakers and when i say MAJOR i mean like HUGE
anyways, he's been accused of ass-raping some cheerleader chick and it's a similar story to this soccer one. The chick was working at the hotel that Kobe was staying at and consented to go to Kobe's room at MIDNIGHT and then 16 hours later she's screaming rape (and to be honest my initial reaction was KOBE=INNOCENT coz im biased being a huge Lakers fan but now i have my doubts)
anyways, as soon as the allegation was made, it was all over the TV and radio networks blah, and like i said Kobe is a HUGE star, he earns more bucks than the entire Newcastle team combined and i ain't kidding ya, but in spite of that - no anonymity for Kobe
i also recall another UK case of censorship involving an English soccer player - Michael Owens of Liverpool. Some time last year he was cheating on his preqnant gurlfriend banging some chick and doing drugs blah. The chick set him up, she had pics blah and sold her story to yuor News of the World. But Owens managed to obtain a court order to prevent the NOTW from publishing even thou the story was TRUE and the newspaper had photographic evidence
it seems to me that if yuo're an English soccer star, the English courts will protect yuo. If yuo're not important to the success of yuor national soccer team, then yuo=busted
something like that would never happen in the US
freedom of information and free speach blah are very important issues to Americans
