What is it about footballers? Do they have separate rules regarding driving offences from us?
Tevez gets a paltry £1.2k fine for driving while banned. What is that about 1.9 minutes of his football playing week?
Then Nasri gets gets a ban after his original conviction was overturned because he wasn't aware his Mercedes was photographed speeding. Did you ever hear such utter bulls**t?
I've never been aware of the photos either! But I never got off.
In 2007, Ronaldo got a £1,000 fine, then in 2009 he wrote off his Ferrari in a strange accident. (He was tested for alcohol and cleared).
It would be very interesting to have a national survey of driving offences by footballers and their punishments.
I think Sweden bases their Driving Fines on ability to pay. they look at the individual's ability to pay, or their earnings. So if someone earns £200k per week, they would get a fine equivalent to say 2 weeks. That's about the equivalent, for the average UK worker, of what Nasri got for his offence!
If you made £100k per year, your fine would be £4k! Almost 4 times the fine that Tevez got!
also for the normal person like you and me, we couldn't afford to hire a chauffeur to get us around.
Hey maybe we could pay off the national debt if we just fined these guys on that basis. George Osborne are you listening?
For full Nasri report see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-22026447
For Tevez report see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22016002
For full Ronaldo Report see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6334539.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7817764.stm
Author: Matt Connaire
