{"id":5043,"date":"2011-02-16T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2011-02-16T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:53:12","slug":"football-stars-worst-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5043","title":{"rendered":"Football Stars Worst Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Autoblog story – football stars top the league of “bad drivers”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m not completely clear on why this is considered “news”. It’s more a statement of the obvious – and it has more than a few links with the previous story from Autoblog about young male drivers’ insurance premiums.<\/p>\n

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According to findings by insurance firm elephant.co.uk, 28.9 per cent of professional footballers – almost one in three – have flouted the rules of the road and paid the price with points, fines or worse still, bans. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

OK, OK. So it’s from an insurance company engaged in promoting itself with one of those daft surveys, but it is still an interesting topic (for a few minutes, anyway).<\/p>\n

All it requires is the application of a little logic:<\/p>\n