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Jesse Lingard (centre) admitted the offence at Manchester Magistrates\u2019 Court
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Ex-Manchester United midfielder Jesse Lingard has been banned from driving after failing to name the driver of his car when it was caught speeding.<\/p>\n

The England international, whose Nottingham Forest contract\u00a0ended in June, pleaded guilty at Manchester Magistrates\u2019 Court.<\/p>\n

The court heard Lingard was not driving his Range Rover in August 2022 but missed a letter asking for details.<\/p>\n

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The 30-year-old was fined \u00a3900 and banned from driving for six months.<\/p>\n

Lingard\u2019s barrister Frank Rogers said the letter asking for the driver\u2019s details had been sent to the player\u2019s address in Greater Manchester when he had moved to rented accommodation in Nottingham.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cMr Lingard has accepted that the system in place at that time just was not good enough to protect him and deal with processing his mail.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when the speeding offence was committed in August last year in Stretford, Mr Lingard was in Nottingham. He was not the driver.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Rogers said that Lingard, who made no comment as he left court, was now \u201cin discussion\u201d with several clubs about his future playing career.<\/p>\n

District Judge Jane Hamilton told the player he was liable to be disqualified under the \u201ctotting-up\u201d process because he had points on his licence following two previous speeding offences.<\/p>\n

As well as the \u00a3900 fine, the judge ordered the player to pay a further \u00a3560 in costs.<\/p>\n

The midfielder moved to Nottingham Forest in 2022 after more than 20 years at Manchester United.<\/p>\n

He has 32 England caps and featured in the 2018 World Cup squad.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year Lingard, who had a loan spell at West Ham in the 2020-21 season,\u00a0said he turned to drink \u201cto try and take the pain away\u201d\u00a0as he struggled to deal with his career at United and \u201cabuse\u201d from fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look back now and think, \u2018What was I doing that for?\u2019. I was trying to forget what was going on. But it makes it 10 times worse,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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