Living surrounded by luxury and popularity has become a daily sight of the football players in the UK or in Europe. Not surprisingly, they often become the target of the crime that people do irresponsible.

One of them experienced as Peter Crouch. Attackers club Stoke City's loss of property worth 100 thousand pounds of jewelry, Christmas gifts, watches and a number of other valuable objects.

Ironically, the incident occurred when Crouch was seeing with his wife, Abbey Clancy. In addition to jewelry, a laptop computer also reportedly missing. "The exact amount of losses is not known, but of course it's very disappointing," said a spokesman for the British Police to Dailiymail.co.uk, Thursday (22/12).

Crouch lives in a mansion worth 4.5 million pounds bought from England cricketer Freddie Flintoff, who was in the elite area of ​​Prestbury, Cheshire. The new residence inhabited by a few months ago is equipped with gym facilities, cinema room, and swimming pool. In this area there is also the residence of a number of football stars like Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand.

A similar fate ever experienced Steven Gerrard, Emile Heskey and Roque Santa Cruz. Coleen Rooney, wife of Wayne Rooney, Manchester United's forward-some time ago also become victims of extortion action after missing his Olympus camera unidentified man was taken.

They had demanded a ransom in large numbers to the couple. If not, all personal photos in their cameras will be sold to a number of mass media.

One of the perpetrators of the crime, James Birch who has done a six dwelling action against the British soccer star, admitted the action was done while the players were not home because he was following the tour match. Birch was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in 2006.