Drink-driving fine for player

PREMIER League footballer Oli McBurnie has been fined £28,500 for drink-driving after a police officer spotted him reaching an “idiotic” speed in his high-powered Audi.

The 24-year-old Scotland and Sheffield United striker appeared at Leeds Magistrates’ Court where he admitted the charge and was banned from the roads for 12 months.

Police stopped the

£17.5 million footballer near his home in Garforth, Leeds, at 1.16am on October 19 last year, and he was found to have 53mg of alcohol per 100ml of breath, when the legal limit is 35mg.

The £20,000-a-week footballer was stopped in his black Audi R8 after an officer saw him visit a garage and speed away.