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From four leaf clovers to a severed rabbit’s foot, when it comes to lucky mascots reason and taste often go out of the window.

No more so than at AC Milan where one charm is being held responsible for the team’s recent upturn in fortunes on the pitch: David Beckham’s bottom.

Since Beckham’s arrival at the San Siro, the England midfielder has started every game and scored his first goal in last weekend’s demolition of Bologna.

But as he walked away after celebrating the goal, Clarence Seedorf and Andrea Pirlo both stroked his left bum cheek.

This was apparently because they believe Beckham’s posterior has as much to do with Milan’s revival as his sweet right foot.

“Italy is a superstitious country, people touch things for luck,” an AC Milan spokesperson told UK newspaper “The Sun.”

“Now the players are doing the same thing with Becks’ bottom. He is seen as lucky.”

Whose bottom will Louis Hamilton squeeze before his next start for McLaren? Race car drivers are just as weird as footballers.

David and Victoria Beckham’s housekeepers have been arrested after allegedly stealing items from the couple’s home to sell on eBay. A third person, thought to be the housekeepers’ son, has also been detained in connection with the case…

Reports said Victoria Beckham’s parents, Tony and Jackie Adams, became suspicious about items that seemed to tally with things missing from the house being sold online as “Posh and Becks” memorabilia.

Football boots printed with the names of the couple’s three sons – Brooklyn, Cruz and Romeo – as well as designer dresses and shirts were among some of the items seen on eBay.

The Adams enlisted the help of friends to bid for some items in an attempt to discover the identity of the seller, who claimed to be a relative of a member of staff at Beckham’s football academy.

An eBay spokeswoman said the website was co-operating with police and attemptiong to work out which items were involved in the alleged theft.

She said the site would be able to trace a clear paper trail back to the seller, adding: “Anyone stupid enough to try to sell anything that is not 100% legitimate makes a big mistake when they try to do it on our site.”

If you believe that eBay is especially diligent or successful at preventing the sale of stolen items – I have some oceanfront property in New Mexico to sell you.