The Sun decided last week to run a story about the false rumours circulating about Steven Gerrard:
SEX slurs claiming England’s World Cup hopes were undermined by a player’s fling with a teenage girl are a sick HOAX, The Sun can reveal.
Thousands of fans have received texts and emails saying captain Steven Gerrard had got wife Alex Curran’s 16-year-old sister pregnant.
But the lies are blown apart by one crucial fact – model Alex, 27, does not even HAVE a sister.
(I love the justification here for running a story about a rumour: people are receiving texts and emails. Makes it sound link some sort of conspiracy as opposed to people just emailing their friends …)
Anyway, I don’t know what Gerrard’s lawyers made of this story but they might want to have a word with Google. If you get as far as typing Steven Gerrard into Google News, the auto complete function throws up this list …
Unlike the Sun’s story, the list isn’t peppered with provisos that none of this is true.
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