I don't think I exaggerate when I say that people were surprised by the Le Toux trade to Vancouver.

People understood why Le Toux might want to move to EPL club Bolton and many supported the decision even if they were sad about the possibility of losing our favorite Frenchman (I will post more thoughts on it in my second part of evaluating the Union off-season when the dust finally settles).

Raise your hand if your wife or girlfriend enjoyed the David Beckham underwear commercial. My wife loved the ad so much she had a running commentary about it with my mother in-law, who joked that she was happy to have the commercial DVR'd to go back and watch it often during the game. Say what [...]

By WAG Watcher

Footballers don't half have it hard (nudge, nudge). Kevin-Prince Boateng has had an injury-blighted season in Serie A so far, making only 11 starts to date, and is currently a doubt for AC Milan's Champions League tie with Arsenal next Tuesday after suffering a thigh strain last week.

Images: Replay Jeans.

We've been slow to post on the pics doing the rounds of Irina Shayk's Autumn/Winter 2012 campaign for Replay Jeans. Reason being we're conflicted.

Yes, Irina's topless. We can obviously see that. But she's also wearing fingerless gloves in various colours and textures.

Oh it's happening, Kickettes. And it will be starring a real live WAG.

Jessica Lawlor, girlfriend of Aston Villa's Stephen Ireland confirmed on Twitter this morning that she will have a role in WAG! The Musical. Jess added,

In my role I am simply making fun out of the pre conception that ppl have formed of 'WAGS'.

Mario Gomez with girlfriend, Silvia Meichel. Images: Sky Germany.

Last Friday, the Bayern Munich 'ballers of past and present turned up to celebrate club legend Uli Hoeness' 60th birthday at an open bar party. Present were Mario Gomez and his girlfriend, Silvia Meichel. Isn't she just a breath of fresh-faced, normal air, Kickettes?

Just tweak, tweakin' the hair. Images via Divinity.

He scores lots of goals and lets Jose Mourinho ride him like a pony, but that's pretty much all we ever knew about Real Madrid's 24-year-old headline stealer.

Recently opening up in an interview, Callejón revealed that his bestie in the locker room is none other than The Ramos™.

Obviously, the atmosphere at a derby held in such high esteem such as that of 'Derby della Madonnina' is meant to blow you off your feet. Unfortunately, besides Diego Milito's wonder strike for Inter in the 54th minute (there's no denying him, really) the game last night was .

Mail: Tom Adeyemi turned down place at Cambridge to become a footballer

On Saturday afternoon, 20-year-old Thomas Oleseun Adeyemi turned off his mobile phone and went shopping with his girlfriend, a desperate attempt to find some kind of normality.

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Congrats to Sevilla striker and Spanish international, Alvaro Negredo, who took advantage of the winter holidays to wed his girlfriend Clara Tapia at the El Salvador church in Sevilla. The bride looked beautiful in her dress with a gorgeous lace veil and the groom looked incredibly hot, which is really unfair since he's officially off the market.

An image used by Gold Flake cigarettes warning of the dangers of smoking bears the likeness of John Terry. The Chelsea captain is not amused and is planning legal action. There is no suggestion that Terry has a pack a day smoking habit other than that he appears winded in some of the recent games.

LeBron James picked a team last year. And today, LeBron James has picked a wife. The Miami Heat superstar proposed to Savannah Brinson, who has been LeBron James' girlfriend since high school. LeBron and Savannah already have two children together.

Why did LeBron James decide to get engaged now?

Love and Football II

Narendranath

I have a Fabregas jersey

And don't know what to do with it.

I fear buying one of van Persie-

Too much for my heart and pocket.

A gift my girlfriend gave to me,

Love and winning are too good to

Last like the unbeaten trophy

Season.

I watched FC Barcelona in the wee smalls on Sunday, mesmerized as always by the side's peerless ability to hold possession and work nimbly out of pressure, as Pep Guardiola's men operated in Asia. It took me back a couple of weeks to my trip into that stylish and splendid Catalan city.

Just after sunset, my girlfriend and I sat in a coffee shop not far from the Barcelona's main port.

Carlo Ancelotti and his possible new mystery girlfriend in Venice. Image Credit: Repubblica.it.

- He's 52-years-old and hails from Italy, was unceremoniously sacked from Chelsea after winning the double and his personal life rivals a good daytime soap opera. But we still love us some Carlo Ancelotti, despite his new unidentified Jerry Hall look-alike-from-afar new gal pal that he was papped all around Venice with.

Just 48 hours before scoring against Chelsea Manchester City star Mario Balotelli received an almighty scare when Manchester United fans attacked him whilst driving in his white Maserati! The incident occurred on Saturday when Balotelli was driving his rather standout Maserati Gran Turismo through the streets of Manchester alongside girlfriend Raffaella Fico.

Guti, his girlfriend Romina Belluscio and 'exciting' new face fungus attended the Madrid premiere of 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' last night. Images: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images Europe, PacificCoastNews.com.

It isn't so much the actual growing of the beard that's bothering us here.

By Chris Wright

Nicklas Bendtner has been caught on camera in his native Denmark, (reportedly) drunkenly stumbling into a takeaway after a night out in Copenhagen in search of pizza, only to find himself sans cash.

So far you can empathise with young Nicky, right?

ELLE magazine scored themselves a brace of WAGs to help them finish out the 2011 calendar in top form. At left, one shot of Cristiano's girlfriend from this month's Spanish version of the famed glossy, and to her right we have Victoria Beckham, who kicks off the US edition's new year come January.

Pato's girlfriend, whom we affectionately love to call 'Babs' for purely shortcut purposes, was in Miami last week to attend Emporio Armani's celebration of Art Basel's 10th anniversary. Thanks to a few paps who we actually don't mind receiving e-mails from, we know that Ms B and the Voronins weren't the only ones occupying the sunshine state recently; Samuel Eto'o & fam spent some time letting their hair down (Georgette let her top down) whilst on vacay in Miami Beach.

It was really Alvarez's night. In addition to scoring two goals and having a couple thousand t-shirts with his name and number on it handed out, he may have set a first for the Comets . Alvarez may have become the first Missouri Comet to score at halftime when he proposed to his girlfriend Jenni Ford and she accepted.

By Chris Wright

Arsenal 'keeper Wojciech Szczesny tried to pick up a girl on Twitter recently a girl by the name of Letesha Collins, an 'aspiring glamour model' who currently makes her living as a presenter for adult nudey rudey channel Elite TV and whose work clothes consist of little more than a smile on occasion.

Pictures: Sport's sexiest musical WAGs representing Man United, Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea and more

As David De Gea's girlfriend takes to the stage, we pick out some more tuneful totty

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Javier "Chicarito" Hernandez is becoming one of the fans favorite at Manchester United especially with his habit in scoring important goals for the Red Devils since arriving at Old Trafford this season.

With his current bright future, no one wouldn't thought that the 23-years-old Mexican actually almost ended his footballing career back when he was still playing in his country's league around three years ago.

Morning all,

no doubt you've seen yesterday's announcement but to answer a number of questions that have cropped up since:

1 Yes, it will be available to purchase online, via this very website.

2 Yes, I will ship it to [insert your country name here]

3 Yes, there will be an eBook version

4 Yes, it's 99% certain there will be a wider-release paperback edition in the new year because of the fact this first print run is very limited and therefore a bit of a collector's item.

Colombian pop star/Gerard Pique's on-again girlfriend, Shakira, loved the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star that she received on 8th of November so much she was compelled to lay next to it on the dirty sidewalk. The singer's parents were at the ceremony as well, but showed restraint when asked to join in their daughter's unsanitary fun.

Justin Bieber is in Britain for something or other. Girls everywhere are crying. Meanwhile, the singer turned rapper took some time out from making said girls sob incessantly by hauling his 4-year-old girlfriend, Selena Gomez, to Stamford Bridge for a private tour.

And the world wept.

Ashley & Cheryl?

By Chris Wright

Daniel Bauer, a midfielder who plays for Magdeburg in Germany's Northern regional league, has been forced to flee from his hometown after five masked men broke into his house and threatened him and his girlfriend on Friday night.

So, was Bauer the victim of an opportunist burglary?

By Chris Wright

Want to achieve that thick, lustrous, healthy 'Brendan Rodgers' look that all men are striving for this season? Fetch your old school uniform out of the attic, get your see-through protective face mask on and WORK IT GIRLFRIEND...

Want to know what else went on at Newcastle training this afternoon?

Another day another Mario Balotelli story with the Manchester City striker being caught flicking through a porno magazine whilst his girlfriend had her back turned. The incident occurred whilst Balotelli and his girlfriend and WAG Raffaella Fico were out shopping in Manchester on Wednesday afternoon.

The name is Fico, Raffaella Fico and she is the girlfriend of Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli. Life just does not get any better for Manchester City's most talked about striker ever who has been seen in-and-around Manchester with his 23-year-old stunner. The Cercola-born model reportedly also had a fling with Real Madrid superstar Cristiano [.

From top of the league to top shelf magazines: it's bongo Balotelli!

Mario Balotelli truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Not content with nearly burning down his house at the weekend and scoring two goals at Old Trafford, the man who's fast becoming our favourite footballer of all time has now been pictured out shopping with his girlfriend for.

I think it's fair to say that Josh McEachran's minutes on the pitch in the first team this season have been limited to say the least. I fully expect McEachran to play tonight against Everton away in the League Cup but, as seemingly the case this season, a return to the bench for the Arsenal on Saturday.

Chris Cook has always been known as a bad apple. However, his latest charge has taken his act to a whole new level. On Tuesday, the cornerback for the Minnesota Vikings was suspended indefinitely after he was charged with felony assault by strangulation.

For trying to choke a B, allegedly of course, faces 36 months in jail.

By Chris Wright

If you though HIK's previous overwrought/decidedly annoying goal celebrations (think Shakira, Guns N' Roses, etc) were low budget and chintzy just wait until you see their latest offering, 'The Goal of Love'.

Scored in the same game that spawned the Axl Rose-aping tomfoolery, the 'Goal of Love' sees a chap named Soares bag a completely unremarkable goal, charge into the crowd to kiss his girlfriend Alysson and then, for the benefit of mankind, produce a naff tribute video (complete with Avatar-esque 'special' effects) to mark the occasion that is so cringe-inducing that it made a little bit of sick come up.

Danny Welbeck's withdrawal from England's Under 21 squad was the only one to attract the headlines but Kyle Walker has also forgone the opportunity to add to his haul of caps at this level. As many people expected, Walker has broken through at White Hart Lane this season to make the right back slot his own and he will have a vital role to play at Newcastle on Sunday.

Liverpool Football Club would like to offer their congratulations to Martin Skrtel and his girlfriend following the birth of their baby boy. Barbora gave birth to Matteo in Liverpool on Friday night.
Speaking to his official website, Skrtel said: "I would like to announce great news! My lovely girlfriend Barbora gave birth to our first child!

Baby joy for Skrtel

Liverpool Football Club would like to offer their congratulations to Martin Skrtel and his girlfriend following the birth of their baby boy.

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As Tevez sulks on £200k a week, real pros are forced to take menial second jobs to survive

Welcome to the real world of professional footballers supposedly living the dream. One – a former ­Championship utility player – will cut your lawn and tidy your hedges for £25 an hour.

Meet my bodyguard Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley has received a libel payout over newspaper reports that he had "badgered" a girl for sex. In August, The Sun claimed that Cleverley had been unfaithful to his girlfriend by bombarding a girl he had met in a Blackpool nightclub with texts asking for sex.