Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has been warned that even his clever footwork might not be enough to prevent him getting caught offside - because his new girlfriend is a two-timing liar.
And the warning comes from someone who should know - her husband.
The 23-year-old Manchester United star - who recently crashed his £200 000 (R3-million) Ferrari - has been dating Alyona Haynes, a 25-year-old beauty from Ukraine who met her millionaire hubby, John Haynes, via an internet dating site.
The Sun newspaper in Britain reported this week that Alyona has a history of two-timing and playing one suitor off against another.
Bitter and angry, John (50) - who owns a cleaning firm in England - told the paper: "I don't mind if Ronaldo wants to be with her - but let's at least show him the truth before he does anything foolish."
John realised his wife was dating the footballer when they were snapped on a date last month. He said Alyona was sometimes naked in bed with him when she SMSed Ronaldo, and says he can prove it by the timing of her messages.
John told The Sun that Alyona was also dating another man when he first met her, via a lonely hearts website. She e-mailed him from her home in Odessa, Ukraine.
But, according to the paper, John found out that she was also in contact with a 31-year-old US commodities broker.
Despite having never met John at the time, Alyona declared in an e-mail sent on November 27 2003: "I am very romantic and tender and I want to find my knight on the white horse. I also like to go the beach to listen to lapping of the waves, wind blowing, seagulls crying."
And she urged him on, stating in broken English: "I think I am a mysterious girl and I want somebody to get to the bottom of me
. So maybe this person will be you?"
At the time she was 20, a quarter of a century younger than the man she was chasing.
In his later reply to her, he said: "I live in a very nice part of England close to Manchester airport. You have found your knight on a white horse. This man will get to the bottom of this mysterious lady!!!"
The relationship progressed quickly and he invited her to his plush home with a view to asking her to marry him. Alyona told him they were right for each other because "in my country is something wrong with our men. The same situation is with your women, is that right?"
But within months John was devastated to discover he had competition from the American, who she had been secretly wooing and whose profile was on the same lonely hearts website.
She had led the American on to the extent that he was prepared to move halfway across the world to marry her.
After Alyona apologised in a letter to John, the two were married when she decided to "dump him and keep me", John told The Sun.
Today Alyona - who is said to have dated Ronaldo about eight times - works in the fashion department at the Selfridges store in Manchester. Ronaldo met her in a posh restaurant in August.
A week later, John found the first of 300 SMSs the pair exchanged.
At first he suspected she was having a fling with a waiter. Ronaldo only entered the frame last month when pictures emerged of him enjoying a meal with Alyona.
Source: Tonight
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