El Hadji Diouf’s pizza cravings saw Senegal star flout law in gold Cadillac
Former Senegal star El Hadji Diouf will be cheering on his nation against England in the World Cup – but we just hope he isn't driving to watch the game somewhere.
That's because Diouf was a serial parking offender during his time in the Premier League with the likes of Liverpool and Bolton. The 41-year-old would regularly flout the law to feed his pizza cravings.
Back in October 2009, the then-Blackburn Rovers forward was caught returning to his outrageous gold Cadillac Escalade after going for a spot of lunch in Manchester, having left the £53k motor in a loading bay.
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He managed to narrowly avoid a £70 fine on that occasion as the traffic warden's hand-held computer wasn't working. Diouf had been dining on a seafood pizza at the San Carlo restaurant, where he returned in December of that year to pick up four more for takeaway.
After ditching his £420k chrome Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren on double-yellow lines that time, he wasn't so lucky. Despite protesting that he'd been "just 25 minutes", Diouf was handed a parking ticket by a member of the public after it had been placed on his windscreen.
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His misdemeanors date back all the way to 2005, when he left his black Lincoln Navigator in a disabled parking spot while he went shopping for the afternoon in Manchester.
The repeated tickets unsurprisingly didn't deter him, as in January 2011 he parked his McLaren in a taxi rank outside the Radisson Hotel, again in Manchester.
He did, however, get stung the year before for driving without a valid UK licence, which gave wardens a six-month break from handing him tickets.
Diouf had a letter from the Senegalese Embassy which said he held an international licence for 12 months – but used it for seven years after a mix up with the paperwork.
And the wardens had the last laugh in February 2012 as the McLaren supercar was repossessed after he failed to keep up with the payments.
Diouf, who was twice named the African Footballer of the Year, scored 24 goals in 70 appearances for his nation but was banned for playing for them in 2011. He'll no doubt be behind them, though, as they try to reach the World Cup quarter-finals by beating England on Sunday (December 4).
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