The LA Galaxy experiment must have left Beckham feeling pretty fed up. The team consistently under-performs, his only friend away from the pitch has a Hitler haircut and keeps making the same joke about aliens bombing volacanos, and now the wife has got her own friends.

Many people would argue that Kate Beckinsale isn’t strictly a WAG, and in many ways those people would be absolutely right. Mainly because, technically - if you’re really nit-picking - she isn’t a WAG. She’s married to some kind of cigar smoking movie man, the director Len Wiseman. But the big news is that she is POSH SPICE’S new best pal. That makes her an honorary WAG, so ner!