Meet the play-off final Wags of Leeds and Southampton, from a Polish beauty to a former star of PSV
FOR Leeds and Southampton it’s the biggest game of the season.
The two titans of the Championship go head-to-head at Wembley Stadium on Sunday – with a place in the Premier League at stake.
Both clubs are looking to go straight back up at the first time of asking.
The Whites and the Saints were heartbreakingly relegated last season, but were aided by the Prem’s parachute payment to keep hold of most of their stars.
Cheering the sides on will be the player’s Wags.
From a former PSV star to a Polish beauty who supported her beau at the World Cup in Qatar, here are Leeds and Southampton’s glam partners.
Michaela Ireland
Stunning Michaela is a model and long-term partner of Patrick Bamford.
They got engaged in 2022, after Bamford dropped down on one knee to propose.
The loved-up pair were already proud parents to baby daughter, Emilia before announcing they were set to wed.
It is believed they met in 2018, when he was on loan at Chelsea.
She has appeared in campaigns for Pretty Little Thing and Missy Empire.
Julia Bednarek
Jan and Julia Bednarek’s love affair was a very modern one. The pair first got chatting on social media.
“Janek and I met on the Internet. He wrote to me on Snapchat and that’s how it started,” she told Super Express.
“We started texting each other every day, then we talked on FaceTime, because Janek was in England and I was in Poland. It was hard to meet.
“And the first time I saw him live was at the Poland-Kazakhstan match, where I first met his managers, then Janek’s parents and then him!
“There was an immediate spark and we knew we were made for each other. There is no greater love.”
Naomi Pattiwaell
For Joel Piroe and missus Naomi football must be the hot topic of the household.
Because even though Piroe is doing his best to fire Leeds back to the Premier League, his missus can always give him a few pointers on his game.
She is a former PSV women’s footballer, who starred as a forward for the Dutch club from 2018-2022.
After moving to Twente, she took time out to have a baby in 2023.
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Sofia Lepore
Italian stunner Sofia is the girlfriend of Saints midfielder Will Smallbone.
She graduated from Birmingham University in 2022 with a Batchelor of Arts degree in Political Science & International Relations.
But since then her life has been a whirlwind of fun, with her Instagram account offering a hint of the lifestyle she leads.
Fancy holidays in Ibiza, Santorini, Dubai and the South of France feature among many.
While in Saint-Tropez, she also dined at the exclusive Dior restaurant.
Summer Godbold
Gorgeous blonde Summer jumped onto the pitch at St Mary’s to celebrate beau, Flynn Downes’ achievements at getting to Wembley.
She posted the moment online revealing how proud she was off him.
Summer welcomes the Wag lifestyle with open arms – showing off her fancy breaks away to places including Dubai, Paris and Rhodes on her social media.
And she isn’t afraid to share snaps of her amazing bikini body to her followers online, regularly posing in designer swimwear for the camera.
Ria Hughes
Leeds ace Dan James whisked Ria off to Mykonos in the summer of 2022 to pop the question.
The Welsh winger pulled out at the stops to make the occasion special with an all-white ceremony behind the backdrop of ‘MARRY ME’ in large letters.
The surrounding ocean and hedonistic hilltops only added to the romance of the occasion.
They welcomed a son together in 2021, soon after James completed a £25m move to Man Utd.
She is reportedly a fitness instructor.
Flora Jones
Flora is the rock who supported Southampton winger David Brooks through his cancer battle.
She was with him every step of the way as he received treatment for stage-two Hodgkin lymphoma, taking him to his appointments and sitting by his bedside as he received chemotherapy.
Brooks even labelled her his “24-hour nurse” as he began his recovery journey.
Last year, the pair got engaged in Mauritius – a moment he shared on Instagram.
He wrote: “Special night with a very special girl fiancé and wife to be ”