Smoke can come before fire, but I think your right about his head getting too big. He probably got possessive, and she played on it. Women like to mess with the mind, its a power thing. He is probably just to stupid to realise the game and gets frustrated.
In fairness, most footballers today have exceedingly high opinions of themselves, massive ego's, monstrously large amounts of over self confidence and disgusting amounts of over self importance.
Gushing superiority complex knows and has no limits with most of these generally speaking, thick as pure pig sh1t tits.
I personally speaking, wouldn't pi55 on 99% of them if they were on fire tbh., but as long as most dim witted fans carry on worshiping them as some sort of superior heavenly gods and creatures, the worse it's going to get.