The appetite to watch women fighting is infinite, and Vardy v Rooney has given us enough material to keep going for decades
The verdict has been reached in one of the most expensive libel cases in British history: Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney, or to give it its proper name, Wagatha Christie. It was so dramatically nonsensical that for the court to merely put it up on its website feels rather inadequate. The judge should have delivered it in a self-destructing Snapchat, or at the very least, in skywriting.
Nonetheless, here it is: Coleen Rooney won. But before we drill into whether we agree with that, as a newspaper (joking! I speak only for myself, and I do agree with it), here’s a quick recap into what went down between Vardy and Rooney, and the social conditions that created their epic dispute.
