And they thought it couldn’t get any worse ...

OH to be a fly on the wall the next time the Italian football team assemble for a game, following comments from goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon’s wife about how attractive her husband’s teammates are.

Mrs Buffon — better known as beauty queen Alena Seredova, who was the Vice Miss Czech Republic in 1998 — appears to have an eye for some of the other members of the Azzurri team, and she wasn’t shy about ranking them in order of attractiveness.

“I am a great supporter and I follow the national team with my father,” Seredova said in an interview on the Alfonso Signorini Show. “I get emotional with every save Gigi makes, but a woman must admit that the two sexiest players in the national team are on the bench,” she said, before going on to name names.