No matter how much you
plead or beg, the traffic warden refuses to give any quarter and you are
forced
to part with your hard-earned cash to pay the fine.
Samuel Eto'o experienced
just that frustration, but rather than laughing off a minor fine the
£10m-a-year football megastar appeared to put up quite an argument.
Booked: Samuel Eto'o
appears to plead with a traffic warden in Milan
A parking fine in Milan
costs around 60 euros (around £51) but Eto’o - one of the best paid footballers
in Europe - seems to plead with the female traffic warden not to fine him.
With his hands clasped
together, Eto’o replicates the gesture that footballers in Italy and Spain
often use when asking for leniency from a referee.
But later on he also
appears to become frustrated and at one point jabs a finger towards the parking
attendant.
Frustrated: Eto'o seems to
get annoyed and points his fingers at the traffic warden
Frustrated: Eto'o seems to
get annoyed and points his fingers at the official
Casually dressed in a black
cardigan and white T-shirt with tracksuit bottoms and red hi-top boots, the
elite footballer seems keen to worm his way out of the fine.
The Cameroon international
has long been among the highest-earning footballers in Europe having raked in
around £138,000-a-week with Spanish giants Barcelona, where he spent five years
prior to sealing a megabucks move to Italy with Inter Milan in the summer of
2009.
He currently earns a
reputed £9.6m-a-season on a five-year contract with the Italian and European
champions.
Elite level: Eto'o won the
Champions League with Inter Milan last season
Elite level: Eto'o won the
Champions League with Inter Milan last season
Eto'o was linked with a
move to Barcelona's rivals Real Madrid in the January transfer window with the
Spaniards desperate to sign a striker.
However, the move was
scuppered by Eto'o's wage demands and Madrid instead moved for the cheaper
option of Emanuel Adebayor, who wanted only £140,000 per week.
Eto'o has previously been
noted for his largesse and last summer at the World Cup in South Africa he
spent £900,000 on designer watches for his Cameroon team-mates
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