Rebekah Vardy ‘REFUSED to budge after deliberately sitting behind Coleen Rooney at Euros’

REBEKAH Vardy sparked a row after she deliberately sat behind Coleen Rooney at England’s Euro 2016 Wales clash, the High Court libel trial heard.

She and pals were asked to shift after they allegedly pinched seats belonging to the Football Association’s family liaison officer, Harpreet Robertson.

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Rebekah Vardy sparked a row after she deliberately sat behind Coleen Rooney at England’s Euro 2016 Wales clash, the High Court libel trial heard[/caption]

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Coleen pictured leaving court with her husband Wayne[/caption]

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Rebekah insisted they had moved to those seats as Coleen and her family were sitting in their seats[/caption]

But when they were challenged, one of the group told her: “We can sit where we like, f**k off.”

In her witness statement, Mrs Robertson accused Becky of wanting to be “right in the eyeline” of anyone looking at, or photographing, Coleen.

She added that Rebekah’s behaviour in England’s 2-1 win “suggested to me her focus was little or nothing to do with the match”.

She was “constantly on her phone, often taking selfies and generally showing very little interest in the match itself”, the court heard.

Mrs Robertson said: “Becky had chosen to sit behind Coleen rather than take the seats that I had allocated to her.

“Around ten minutes before kick-off, I arrived to find a number of people already sat in the seats I had reserved for myself and FA security team members.

“I asked them to move but they refused . . .  remarking words to the effect of, ‘We can sit where we like, f**k off’.

“An altercation followed which almost reduced me to tears. I soon realised that these people were the guests of Becky.”

Rebekah insisted they had moved to those seats as Coleen and her family were sitting in their seats.

But Mrs Robertson accused her of lying.

There was another flashpoint before kick-off in England’s 2018 World Cup semi-final against Croatia in ­Russia.

Mrs Robertson continued: “Becky had once again decided she would not sit in the seats allocated to her.

“Becky decided to sit a few rows further forward and when I walked past her to my seat, she grabbed me to complain that she was not happy with the seats she had been given.

“I explained that there was rotation in use and I had allocated her this seat because Becky had a group of seven with her — and this was the only group of seven seats together within the allocated section.”

The case continues.