Footballer gets three points... on his licence

Multi-millionaire footballer David James has been convicted of speeding – in a 12-year-old Vauxhall Astra.

The ex-England goalkeeper, 41, was pulled over doing 90mph on a motorway in the V-reg vehicle, which would typically change hands for about £500.

He was caught on the M5 in Somerset between his family home in Chudleigh, Devon, and his current club Bristol City. James failed to attend a speeding awareness course after being caught.

He was convicted of speeding in his absence yesterday at North Somerset Magistrates' Court in Weston-super-Mare.

The court heard James was stopped near the town at 8.30am on July 22 last year.

Magistrates fined him £175 plus £85 costs and a £15 victim surcharge, and ordered his licence, previously clean, to be endorsed with three penalty points.