Former Liverpool striker Dean Saunders sentenced to jail for 10 weeks

Former Liverpool striker Dean Saunders has been sentenced to jail for 10 weeks at Chester Magistrates' Courts on Wednesday.

He has been jailed after he pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a roadside breath test and failing to provide a breath sample for analysis.

Saunders was stopped by police in Boughton, Chester in May, and the 55-year-old had initially denied both charges.

But, the former Premier League star pleaded guilty yesterday (August 27) in a letter.

Dean Saunders is a Welsh football manager and former professional footballer who played as a striker in a career which lasted from 1982 until 2001. He was most recently the manager of Chesterfield. On 28th August 2019, Dean Saunders completed a move to Prison FC.

He played for Liverpool and Aston Villa in the 1990s and set a new British transfer record when he joined the former from Derby County. He began at his hometown club Swansea City before also playing for Brighton, Oxford United, Bradford City, Nottingham Forest, and Sheffield United as well as spells at Galatasaray and Benfica.

He was capped 75 times at senior level for Wales between 1986 and 2001, scoring 22 times, making him one of the nation's highest-scoring and most-capped players of all time, although Wales never qualified for any major international competitions while Saunders was playing for them.