The newspaper notorious for its sting operations has been the victim of a sting.

The News of the World was to believe that a footballer was sexually explicit text messages to "a mystery woman 'sent fake.

Under the heading "Ex-Celtic goalkeeper glove is a real rat," the newspaper claimed he had cheated on his pregnant fiancee by "explicit X-rated messages" \ and "dirty pictures."

She published the story about the Polish national team, Artur Boruc In his Scottish issue in July last year.

The story was completely untrue. Boruc is suing the newspaper for libel and the case was expected to go to court.

But the Court of Session in Edinburgh was told on Friday that the newspaper now accepted that it was in the wrong.

It was therefore agreed in an out-of-court settlement to apologize to him and Boruc pay ? 70,000, which is probably a record sum in a Scots libel case. The paper will also pay all his legal expenses.

According to the News of the World 's attorney, Roddy Dunlop QC , Had the paper "the victim of a highly sophisticated deception by a man".

The court was told the man, identified as Kevin O 'Donnell , Were as Boruc 's financial advisor and then wove a web of elaborate lies, with many interconnected strands that appeared to corroborate the story.

He formed a fake Facebook page, and added, false comments that allegedly came from Boruc 's girlfriend.

In a text-image, he used a photoshopped picture of a man 's upper body is a monkey tattoo, similar to a known Boruc has been added.

The scam unraveled only when the cell phone records showed that the calls was from a Glasgow hotel made at a time when Boruc - who now plays for Italian team Fiorentina - was on holiday in Sardinia.

Dunlop told the court that the defendants ( Newsgroup , "Accept that they made entirely in this scam" The paper 's Verlag) \, but he added: "They were not reckless or irresponsible in the belief that they held.

Boruc 's lawyer told the court that the allegations against his client was "very annoying." He said, footballers "outed faced for misconduct, the set of rival fans in the pillory."

PS: If one report of the court and turning to the published story, I put these two paragraphs:

"Last night a friend of the Hoops hero said ...:" This is not a good time for this to come out Artur \. 'S been stupid'.

The friend, who declined to be named, added: "'t remember what he sent her, but he should have never done it' You can \ '\.

Against the background of the paper 's admission that the story was untrue to itself, these citations are exposed have been concocted as with.

It shows once again how difficult it is everything that you read to believe the News of the World.

Sources: BBC/STV/The Scotsman