Ten alleged lovers of the footballer Rio Ferdinand were named at the High Court in London yesterday.

The women were included in official court documents after Ferdinand launched a legal battle over claims by a lover that she had a 13-year-affair with the Manchester United star.
Ferdinand, 32, has brought his case for misuse of private information over a Sunday Mirror article in which interior designer Carly Storey gave her account of their 13-year relationship in return for £16,000.
His QC, Hugh Tomlinson, said his client should be awarded a maximum of £50,000 damages if he wins his privacy action, the High Court heard.
Mr Tomlinson, said he would also seek a worldwide "contra mundum" injunction if the England and Manchester United centre back prevailed over MGN Ltd.
He told Mr Justice Nicol: "This is not a trivial case. This is a case of a particularly important nature in the sense that it is not often that someone who is written about in such a way in the press has the courage to take them on in a court case.

"If the court was to award a small sum of damages it would, in the circumstances, be entirely inappropriate."
After hearing closing speeches, the judge reserved his ruling and said it might not be given before the end of July.
Ferdinand has branded the April 2010 piece - "My affair with England captain Rio" - a "gross invasion of my privacy", and said he had not met Ms Storey for six years by the time it appeared.
The article, which was produced in court in a redacted form, claimed that Ferdinand ended the relationship within days of being handed the skipper's armband in February 2010.
MGN claims it was in the public interest to run the story about Ferdinand, who replaced John Terry as England captain, before Terry was reinstated by manager Fabio Capello this year.
Its counsel, Gavin Millar QC, said that Ferdinand was appointed England captain on the basis of being reformed and responsible.
In fact, as the article said, this was not the case.
"Moreover, once appointed, the claimant had tried to ensure that he would not meet the same fate as John Terry by quietly eradicating Ms Storey from his life."
He said the case was not really about Ferdinand's privacy but about the effect on the public image he had so painstakingly constructed, and was without merit.
Mr Millar provided a list of ten names of women Ferdinand was alleged to have been involved with.
Mr Tomlinson dismissed the idea that the article contributed to a debate about the England football captaincy.
He said: "A moment's analysis reveals that if the debate is supposed to be over the issue of whether the England football captain should be an upstanding figure along the lines of the great men of yesteryear, Bobby Moore and Billy Wright, then the obvious contribution to that about Mr Ferdinand is clear - he is not a man with a spotless past, it is well known.
"By far the most important question mark placed over his captaincy related to his failure to attend a drugs test. That was extensively debated in the newspapers and he was deservedly punished for it.
"But, to say, because of some general interest, that the England football captain should have the morals of a bishop, to say that for that reason then anything goes when the private life of a footballer is in issue, is manifestly a fallacious argument.
"The answer is very simple. This is private information and there is no public interest in its publication, and that is the end of it."

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