‘Wagatha Christie’: Former England team mates butt heads in Wagileaks trial

Wayne Rooney has told the High Court that giving evidence at the libel trial brought by Rebekah Vardy against his wife Colleen was “the first time” he’d had “any understanding of what happened”.

Mr Rooney described how his wife had struggled to cope with the impact of the long-running legal proceedings – as Rebekah Vardy and her footballer husband Jamie sat in the courtroom, just a metre away.