WHEN Ryan Giggs was named in the House of Commons as the man who asked the High Court for an injunction to protect his human right to a private and family life, it’s a pity the judge didn’t think to ask him what family, exactly, he may have been talking about.

Or maybe he did and was still satisfied that Giggs should have been allowed to bind the mouth of Imogen Thomas and anyone who wanted to speak about her in relation to himself.

Earlier this week Giggs’ own sister-in-law made astonishing allegations of an eight-year affair with the Premiership star.

Giggs has made no public statement so no one’s heard his side of the alleged story. And no one has heard anything official from his wife, Stacey, mother of his two children.

But, as it is claimed in one publication, she’s said: “We don’t believe Natasha” (the sister-in-law), I wouldn’t be waiting for his clothes to be chucked on the front lawn in bin-liners anytime soon.”

Of course it’s up to Stacey Giggs what she chooses to believe about her husband, just as it’s up to him whether to speak out when people accuse him of things.

But if the allegations are true her old man sounds like a prize rat and all the injunctions in the world won’t stop people from forming that opinion of him now.

Or from wondering just what her life must really be like, behind the handbags, Louboutins and Waggery.

One thing’s for sure, it probably won’t be like the home life of Mrs Sam Kidd.

She is the wife of Eddie, the iconic, daredevil motorbike stuntman who, despite suffering grievous brain damage in an accident, this week completed the 2011 London Marathon in aid of a leukaemia charity.

Every day he moved about a mile in tiny steps, the taking of which you can see cost him all his mental and physical effort.

“It’s the best thing Eddie has ever done,” said Sam, beaming at his joy as he was showered with champagne at the finishing line.

Like Stacey Giggs, you wonder what her life must be like, caring for a man with such profound difficulties.

But even with all his troubles and the battles that lie ahead, it’s easy to see that Sam’s husband is 10 times the man that Stacey’s appears to be.

No wonder she can smile.