A man actually left this woman…

It’s easy to forget that not all beautiful ladies get the chance to become WAGs, and even when they do, their stint as the most lucky woman alive can be short lived. Beyonce Knowles, Helen of Troy and Jenny Agutter are just three gorgeous girls who never made it to a footballer’s arm. Even great lookers like Danielle Lloyd and Charlotte Mears have had their thrones in the pantheon of WAGs snatched away from them. And so has this sexy lady, Maria Mazza.

An Italian model, Maria has been photographed more times than we care to imagine, and she once appeared on Italian television bouncing around on a space hopper.

So who was the lucky man she used to go out with? Why, it was Francesco Totti.

See more of her after the jump…

UEFA have been playing with the crazy pots again

The good officials of the Champions League gathered around the trough in Monaco this afternoon, pausing briefly to pompously remove some plastic footballs from mixing bowls in one of their favourite little rituals.

As per, various pundits and sundry authorities were on hand to discuss the mouth-watering nature of the dance card, while those associated with the managerial side of things vowed not to underestimate anybody, as decreed by UEFA’s guidelines on how to talk to the press at times such as this.

Of the English teams, Liverpool probably feel the men in blazers could have looked harder to find them a couple of soft sides, but at least

An Miss Italy finalist who’s also a WAG? Surely some mistake…

When he isn’t brawling with teammates, Roma and Italy midfielder Alberto Aquilani loves nothing better than keeping company with beauty pageant-types. Before he caught the attention of Miss Italy 2003 Francesca Chillemi, he stepped out with Miss World 2002 contestant Pamela Camassa.

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Iraq are banned from the Olympic Games
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Roma star Philippe Mexes has been car-jacked
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Mrs Harry Kewell could be off to Italy

After his release from Liverpool, word on the rumour vine is that Socceroo Harry Kewell could be joining forgetful Norwegian John Arne Riise at Roma. Unfortunately, this tiny island would become one fine WAG lighter, as his wife Sheree Murphy (and their three children) would also head off to the land of pasta, corruption and inexplicably good looking people.

All of today’s rumours in one easy-to-use list thing

Well that’s it, the football seasons have ended throughout Europe… sorry, hang on, what’s that Scotland? Yours hasn’t finished? Hmmm, is it going to be Rangers or Celtic? Well, there’s a shock. Some might argue that your football season never really starts or ends. But enough of this zany metaphysical talk, what’s been going on in Transfer Land?

Frank Lampard to Inter Milan
Whenever it sounds like Jose Mourinho is close to picking up his sheriffs badge and polishing his six shooter, ready to rejoin the world of the employed, everyone starts frothing at the mouth and insisting that, well, that’s it, Lampard and Drogba will definitely be going to Italy after all. He’s not their dad, you know.

The Spoiler Truth-o-meter: Simple maths? Probably not, Columbo.

Mario Gomez to Newcastle
There is talk of Germany’s new star joining the pantheon of greats, like Jon-Dahl Tomasson, Albert Luque, Alan Smith, Warren Barton… the list is very long.

The Spoiler Truth-o-meter: One word Mario: don’t do it!

A Miss Italy who dates a footballer? Surely not

Due to a trend started by good ol’ George Best in the sixties, the most popular occupation of your typical WAG of the Day appears to be ‘beauty queen’: Miss Italy 2003 Francesca Chillemi joins Aída Yéspica, Vincenza Cacace, Elisabetta Gregoraci and Giorgia Palmas in the realm of competitive goodlookingness. Francesca’s efforts have been rewarded not only with a crown and scepter, but also the affections of Cagliari Calcio’s Vincenzo Marruocco and more recently Roma’s sass-mouthed midfielder Alberto Aquilani.

South American WAG’s beauty is scandalous in Italy

Somehow, The Spoiler’s WAG of the Day feature has managed to bypass Venezuelan beauty queen Aída Yéspica on 88 separate occasions, but today we’re finally making amends. The former Miss Amazonas moved to Italy in 2003, where her constant nude modelling shoots (do a Google image search of her name, I dare you) caught the attention of Milan’s Pippo Inzaghi. She then moved onto Roma’s Matteo Ferrari, but is best known in the boot shaped nation for causing a political scandal. Mischief-making ex Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reportedly said ‘With you I’d go anywhere,’ to Aída, causing his wife to demand an apology in a letter to Italy’s largest newspaper La Repubblica.

The Wet Dog eased Manchester Utd into the Champions League semi-finals, where they will meet a Barcelona side who looked quite unimpressive last night. Get on a Manchester Utd Champions League victory at 7/4 before the odds get even shorter.

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“I spent twenty years at Real Madrid and second is no good,” announced Rafa Benitez yesterday, before dismantling Arsenal with a series of unfathomable hand gestures. Considering Senor Benitez never made it to the Madrid first team, second was in fact pretty good for him, especially as the reserves didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory yet he still squeezed two decades of employment out of the club. But Rafa’s actions speak much louder than his words, and he can spout all the gibberish he likes if he keeps on winning games like last night. Meanwhile, in the heart of polite Cheshire society, Sir Alex is laughing fit to burst, probably with a throaty “heh heh heh.” The arch-foe Wenger has been humiliated, and his two other English rivals for the Champions League now have to try and kill each other, while Sir Alex gets to slide through against a below-strength Roma and a confused Barcelona in the semis - what could be simpler? “I spent twenty years at Manchester United,” he might say, “and coming second is sometimes harder than coming first.”

The statistics

* Wayne Rooney has scored four in five against Roma, Ronaldo has three from four.

* Since the Champions League took its current guise, Roma have never