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11th May 2022
04:14pm BST

Coleen Rooney's barrister, David Sherborne, said that "it was pretty much unheard of for a player to go on strike and not turn up for training," while Vardy insisted that the story "absolutely 100% did not come from me".
Vardy did however confess that it looked - from Watt's response - that she was "prepared to do her dirty work for her".
She also stressed that the information did not come from her husband Jamie either, stating that "the gossip was already out there," and that she "never discussed whether the lads were fuming."
Watt's messaged in response said that she could "tell someone" about Mahrez's absence at training, to which Vardy replied: "Do it."
Vardy told the High Court that she was "just gossiping" when speaking to her agent and said: "It was speculation of just bits of information that I had heard and overheard, and also read in the press before.
"Yes, it doesn't look good there, I was gossiping about things that were already in the public domain. I was just gossiping."
Mahrez did eventually return to the Leicester side before eventually moving to Man City the following summer for a fee of £60m in 2018.Explore more on these topics: