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| Moyes wins Rooney book libel case | Moyes wins Rooney book libel case |
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| Everton manager David Moyes has accepted substantial libel damages over claims made in Wayne Rooney's autobiography "My Story So Far". | Everton manager David Moyes has accepted substantial libel damages over claims made in Wayne Rooney's autobiography "My Story So Far". |
| The writ had claimed the publication "injured his professional and personal reputation" and caused him distress. | The writ had claimed the publication "injured his professional and personal reputation" and caused him distress. |
| Moyes had objected to the account of how Rooney came to leave Everton and sign for Manchester United. | |
| Speaking after the hearing Mr Moyes said he was glad that his name "had been fully cleared in this matter". | Speaking after the hearing Mr Moyes said he was glad that his name "had been fully cleared in this matter". |
| 'Wholly untrue' | |
| The undisclosed sum is being paid to Moyes by Rooney, co-author Hunter Davies and publisher HarperCollins. | The undisclosed sum is being paid to Moyes by Rooney, co-author Hunter Davies and publisher HarperCollins. |
| Solicitor Edward Parladorio, for Moyes, told Mr Justice Eady, sitting at the High Court, that in the book his client was accused of "a serious breach of trust towards a young player under his management". | |
| He said Moyes was accused of leaking a private and confidential conversation about the star's intention to leave Everton to a local newspaper. | |
| Mr Parladorio told the court that the allegation was "wholly untrue". |