Arsenal legend Jens Lehmann stopped by cops for ‘drink driving’ in Lederhosen

Ben FlemingPublished Sep 25, 2024, 10:12am|Updated Sep 25, 2024, 10:15am

Former Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was stopped connected suspicion of portion driving aft attending Oktoberfest in Lederhosen.

Lehmann, goalkeeper for Arsenal’s celebrated Invincibles side, was pictured astatine the world-famous brew festival successful Munich connected Sunday.

Police aboriginal pulled implicit the 54-year-old successful the aboriginal hours of the greeting aft helium near the lawsuit successful his car.

According to the German work Bild, Lehmann was staggering and smelled of intoxicant erstwhile constabulary intervened.

The erstwhile German planetary had his driver’s licence confiscated and was taken to the constabulary presumption to acquisition further tests due to the fact that helium couldn’t implicit enactment tests.

It came aft Lehmann was said to beryllium pictured drinking respective steins of brew astatine the festival with friends arsenic good arsenic dancing connected benches successful the Schützenfest structure wearing accepted Bavarian dress.

Speaking to The Sun, elder nationalist authoritative Anne Leiding: ‘Mr. Lehmann was subjected to a constabulary cheque connected September 23, 2024 astatine astir 1:30 a.m. owed to his antithetic driving behaviour successful a car successful the interior metropolis country of Munich.

‘The constabulary are said to person noticed a wide odor of intoxicant and an unsafe manner.

‘A enactment intoxicant trial did not nutrient immoderate usable results, whereupon a humor illustration was ordered and the driver’s licence was confiscated.

‘Our investigations are inactive pending. Suspicions of drunk driving continue.’

Lehmann told Bild: ‘I can’t accidental thing astir it astatine the moment.’

Lehmann is known to beryllium a regular astatine the lawsuit and has been pictured with erstwhile teammate Sol Campbell and ex-Chelsea striker Didier Drogba successful erstwhile years.

In 2009, helium was dropped by German broadside Stuttgart for partying astatine the lawsuit without permission.

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