We actually thought this was going to be one of those Marion Jones-Rio Ferdinand moments in football. Cannavaro failed a dope test yesterday for allegedly using the drug cortisone. Alas, it turned out that even a bee couldn’t resist the sweet charms of Fabio Cannavaro. Judging from Belen Rodriguez’s pose yesterday (she’s an Argentinean model who dated none other than the ferosha Marco Borriello), he smells of honey!

“When he came to the national team, after the Roma game, he told us what had happened and he told us that without the medicine that contained cortisone he would have had a reaction, an anaphylactic shock,” said Castellacci, the Azzurri’s team doctor.

Added Cannavaro’s team-mate Giorgio Chiellini: “It would be awful to make this out as a doping case when it isn’t. I was there when Fabio was stung by the wasp. His arm swelled up straight away. He is calm and so are we.”

Oh well, the wasp is probably giddy with excitement now. We’d be. It’s Canna-f*cking-Varo!!

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