The courtroom is the last bastion of the ‘artist’s impression’, cameras still not allowed to intrude on the deliberations on m’learned friends.
But FourFourTwo went one better in its April 2007 edition, ‘recreating’ an imaginary scene in court from December 1978 when former Manchester United boss Tommy Docherty was bringing a libel action against his former player, Willie Morgan, and Granada TV, only to withdraw the allegations after three days at the Old Bailey.
It’s a riveting tale, augmented by sidebars on a few other footballing court cases and a magnificent illustration of Diego Maradona in the dock. You can sort the fact from the fiction here.
