Carlton Cole is a no show at court
The 31-year-old former Hammer was due to appear on Wednesday to reopen a case which saw him banned from the road for the third time in three years. Cole’s lawyer insisted he wasn’t aware that he was due to attend court and pleaded guilty by post.
Barrister Asam Khan, representing Cole, said: “Someone who does not have GCSEs would not be as au fait with dealing with letters as someone who has had a university education.”
Cole has been without a club since he was released by West Ham at the end of last season when his contract expired.
In 2012 former Hammers manager Harry Redknapp famously told police “I can’t spell and I write like a two year old, I have never written a letter in my life.”
Redknapp said at the time: “I am completely and utterly disorganised. I am not going to fiddle taxes, I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me. I can’t work a computer, I don’t know what an email is, I can’t, I have never sent a fax and I’ve never even sent a text message. I have a big problem, I can’t write so I don’t keep anything. I am the most disorganised person, I am ashamed to say, in the world.”