It's not the thought of Marshall stretched out on the sofa of his mock-Tudor mansion watching Loose Women of an afternoon that makes me chuckle, and obviously I would never condone not paying one's TV Licence, nor would I condone driving while using a mobile phone, which the errant former Celtic goalie has also been fined for over his summer holidays. I pay my TV Licence by Direct Debit and hence I believe am paid up until some time around 2018.
The funny part is that Marshall's fine of £800 is below the maximum of £1000. Why? Because it is means tested. What do you have to earn to get the full £1000! Even more bizarre is the fact that El-Hadji Diouf was also fined a few years back and was given a £100 fine. While he played for Liverpool. And earned around £20,000 per week.
It makes you wonder just how threatening the TV Licensing authority actually are. They make a big noise about students making sure they get individual licences if they're in their own locked room in halls, but what would the fine be? A Pot Noodle?
Still, if we didn't have to pay the TV Licence, we would never have had the stupendous Reeves and Mortimer ad from a few years back:
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