Gudjohnsen gets off driving incident lightly

Iceland striker Eidur Gudjohnsen has reportedly been fined 60,000 pounds by Chelsea while he waits to find out if he will be charged with drink driving.

Iceland striker Eidur Gudjohnsen has reportedly been fined 60,000 pounds by Chelsea while he waits to find out if he will be charged with drink driving.

But Jose Mourinho, a hard-line law enforcer, has taken no further sanctions after Gudjohnsen breached the club's 2am curfew.

The 26-year-old was stopped by police at 5.20am on Sunday morning as he drove home from a night out with family and friends.

Mourinho has already demonstrated his ruthlessness once this season, sacking Romanian striker Adrian Mutu for persistent misconduct culminating in a positive drugs test, but has been more tolerant of Gudjohnsen.

The pair discussed the drink-driving incident at the club's training ground on Monday.

Despite staying out until the early hours, the Iceland international insists he drank just two glasses of wine all night and is confident of escaping a charge when his B-test is returned next month.

Gudjohnsen's original breath test was only marginally over the legal limit and his representatives have sent his blood sample to be analysed independently.

Iceland striker Eidur Gudjohnsen has reportedly been fined 60,000 pounds by Chelsea while he waits to find out if he will be charged with drink driving.

Although Gudjohnsen has a colourful past, losing 400,000 pounds in a five-month gambling frenzy and offending American tourists by going on a drunken rampage with teammates in a hotel near Heathrow Airport in the aftermath of 9/11, his latest misdemeanour is unlikely to compromise his Chelsea future.

The former PSV Eindhoven and Bolton striker has curtailed his socialising in recent years, spending more time with his two young children, and is regarded by Mourinho as one of his stalwarts.

Gudjohnsen was the first Chelsea player to be handed an improved contract by Mourinho last summer and sits on the players' committee, with Claude Makelele and Carlo Cudicini.