The other good thing about British libel laws is that they “[afford] little or no protection to those who have, or deserve to have, no reputation deserving of legal protection”
These are the words of the judge in the case where professional goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar sued the Sun over allegations that he had taken money to deliberately let in goals. The judge ruled that the newspaper had libelled him as they couldn’t prove that he had let in any goals deliberately, but could prove that he had taken the money.
He was awarded damages “commensurate to the value of the reputation he lost”- £1.
