Stuart Slann, 39, made the nine-hour trip from his home in Sheffield to a remote farm in Scotland last month on the promise of meeting the woman he had been swapping suggestive messages with for several weeks.

However, after arriving at the deserted house and waiting for a further three hours in his car for "Emma" to finish work and show up, the two pranksters called him to confess.

To add to his humiliation, they recorded the conversation and put it onto Facebook, the social networking website, and video-sharing website YouTube, along with an embarra**ing photograph.

It was then that Mr Slann's wife Louise, 32, discovered the "affair". Their marriage is now over.

Mr Slann said: "It was a cruel thing to do. I've been taken for a ride. They wound me up good and proper."

The Manchester United fan met the unnamed men, believed to be cage-fighters, during a holiday in Cancun, Mexico, last November.

The three soon started to argue about their rival teams, and a series of heated exchanges ensued over the three-week holiday.

On one occasion the Liverpool Football Club fans threw Mr Slann into the pool, and he accidentally broke his ankle.

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