Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney cheated with prostitute during wife's pregnancy

Another top British soccer star has been booted into the center of an alleged sex scandal. According to both The News of the World and the Sunday Mirror, a 21-year-old prostitute is claiming she bedded Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney seven times in a four month span, all while his wife was pregnant.

"Wayne chased me with sex texts and paid in wads of cash. He didn't seem to care he was betraying Coleen," Jennifer Thompson, who charges clients $1800 a night, told the News of the World. London's Daily Mail reported that Rooney's wife, Coleen, had fled to her parents' home to mull the future of their marriage in the wake of the tabloid headlines.

It's just the latest sex scandal to rock British soccer in recent months. Peter Crouch, Rooney's fellow striker on the national team, withdrew from Euro qualifiers last month after being accused of cheating on his model fiancee with a teenage prostitute. And their England teammate, John Terry, who is still married for now, lost his captaincy earlier in the year after knocking up another teammate's ex-girlfriend.

England midfielder James Milner leaped to his beleaguered teammates' defense - sort of - as Rooney planned to join his England teammates in Switzerland Monday for a Euro 2012 qualifier in spite of the swirling scandal.

"Things are always said in the newspapers. It is part and parcel of football and down to us to make sure the only thing that matters is what happens on the pitch," Milner told reporters Sunday.