Wayne Rooney’s wife, Coleen, is ‘humiliated’, while Jamie Redknapp is ‘carrying on’ after his wife Louise left him
Here is a tale of two marriages, both involving footballers, both of which came a little unstuck this summer. On the one side is Wayne Rooney, a man who never seemed overly burdened with an interest in marital fidelity. Last week, while his pregnant wife and three sons were away on holiday, Rooney was caught driving over the limit accompanied by a young woman with whom, according to the charmingly 1970s-esque language of the tabloids, he was planning to “romp”. No longer, perhaps, provided with the kind of PR protection the England team management can offer, the Rooneys have been in the eye of a media storm ever since, with all the traditional narratives trotted out.
Rooney’s wife, Coleen, is “humiliated”, a word that has been used in pretty much every article featuring her ever since. She feels, according to media reports, like “the world is laughing at her”. Rooney has been “banished to the spare room” while his wife is being urgently advised by someone who has never met her that “millions of men” have done this and that her duty now is to help her husband be “better”. The media narratives are as dated as the tabloid language: silly men and stoical women. You can all but hear the sigh of pleasure when a saga emerges that can be squashed down into this prefabricated storyline, with all the apparently reassuring conservative ideas about gender and sexuality chucked in as a bonus.
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