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Eddie B 12:21 Tue Dec 13
Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
... insists that, as a muslim, he doesn't drink!



Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has pleaded guilty to drink-driving, but says he had not "intentionally consumed alcohol".

The Ivory Coast player, 33, accepts he was "above the permitted limit", and did not challenge the charge.

He was fined £54,000 - a means-tested fine - and banned from driving for 18 months by Barkingside magistrates.

"It is well known that I am a Muslim and do not drink, said Toure. "I have always refused alcohol."

Toure was driving in Dagenham in east London at the time of the offence last month.

He pleaded guilty to the charge on Monday, but did not say in his Facebook statement how the alcohol got into his system.

In his statement Toure added: "Drink-driving is a serious crime and even though I was not intentionally consuming alcohol I accept the ban and fine and I would like to apologise for this situation."

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On The Ball 12:24 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
Yaya Toure was driving around Dagenham. Drinking.

All a bit weird.

Trevor B 12:27 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
I wonder how much Covonia he knocked back to put him over the limit then???

Eddie B 12:29 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
Maybe he really really likes wine gums

Toe Rag 12:33 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
Oooh, I know lying to the hated Kuffar is permitted in his poxy religion but he still boozed.

It's still the hellfire and withdrawal of virgins for you me laddo!

we did the great esc 12:34 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
What the fuck was he doing in Dagenham.

Sven Roeder 12:35 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
Driving in Dagenham?
Surely punishment enough

£54,000 fine. WTF!!
Didn't intentionally consume alcohol?
I guess we have all been so pissed that we don't remember how many we have NECKED.

Toe Rag 12:36 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
On the piss in the Cross Keys.

Marston Hammer 12:39 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
seems like a thorough unlikable bloke but i'm not really a fan of the means-tested fine.

gph 12:51 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
Elephants often get pissed unintentionally when fruit ferments in their stomach, but I don't think having an elephant as a national symbol actually makes you into one

geoffpikey 12:53 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
Maybe it was just a long-awaited brandy-laced birthday cake? Allahu Alcbar.

, 12:55 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
I wonder if he has ever "unintentionally" eaten a pork sausage or bacon sandwich?

gph 1:10 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
Alcbar?

Did you mean that, or are you as prone to unintentional punning as Yaya is to unintentionally knocking back a dozen pints of bitter?

geoffpikey 1:21 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
It was a joke. For which I apologise.

Willtell 1:29 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
It was probably Dave Sullivan slipping him a shot of something tasty to get him to sign for WH in January.

Either that or there is his favourite mosque (AKA tart) in East London that attracted him to drive all the way down from Manchester...

Chigwell 1:41 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
His explanation is of course a nonsense. If you don't normally drink alcohol, you would know after a mouthful (let alone the 2-3 drinks required to go over the limit) if someone had slipped you a laced drink.

And he did not even try running a "special reasons" argument (see below) to avoid a ban. Obviously he did not want to put his case to the district judge, because of the risk of a judicial finding that he was lying. It's easier for him to hire a chauffeur for the next 18 months and hypocritically go on claiming his innocence.

It can be a special reason not to disqualify if the court is satisfied that the proportion of alcohol in a persons breath is attributable to the defendant unwittingly consuming alcohol or where a person has been misled as to the nature of a drink.

In such cases it will be essential to demonstrate to the court that:

1. your drink has been laced
2. you did not know it had been laced
3. if your drink had not been laced the alcohol level in your breath, blood or urine would not have been “over the limitâ€

If the court is satisfied of all of the above requirements, then the court may exercise its discretion not to disqualify, or may impose points in the alternative.

Northern Sold 1:59 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
Maybe he just been to Lahores in Commercial Road... decent bit of nosebag in there.. take your own drinks as well... I reckon it was that

Gavros 2:09 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
what the fuck was he doing in the Nam?

Northern Sold 2:14 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
Having a beer by the sounds of it

Gavros 2:18 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
no shit sherlock. but in Dagenham? Obviously fancied a night out in the Denman.

Grumpster 2:19 Tue Dec 13
Re: Yaya Toure accepts drink driving charge, but.....
I've found that with black drivers, them drinking 10 pints before getting behind the wheel would probably improve their driving.

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