IT was always going to raise eyebrows on a campus car park.

And it seems Southampton’s own football Wag Mel Slade has decided she would prefer to maintain a lifestyle more suited to a uni student – albeit one dating a m i l l i o n - aire star.

She has branded a £140,000 Ferrari California given to her as a 21st birthday present by boyfriend and former Saint Theo Walcott as being too flash and vulgar for university life.

Mel, an ex-Itchen College pupil who is the daughter of Southampton councillor and former city mayor, prefers to drive a modest white £20,000 Beetle Theo bought for her three years ago.

England and Arsenal winger Theo, 20, who earns around £60,000 a week, splashed out on the Italian supercar in November but now drives the 193mph motor himself.

Mel is now in the second year of a physiotherapy course at St George's University Hospital in London where she is a top class student.

She shot to stardom aged 17 when Theo was picked for the England squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

The couple met when Mel worked at Claire’s Accessories in WestQuay shopping centre while Theo was playing for Southampton.