Diouf Another example of his arrogance - it knows no bounds! Star's parking own goal Nicola Dowling HE is fit enough to play for a Premiership football team and can easily afford the £3.50-an-hour charge of a city centre car park. But that didn't stop El-Hadji Diouf leaving his car in a disabled bay in Manchester while he spent the afternoon shopping. Shoppers were furious to see the 24-year-old Bolton Wanderers striker take up the space in St Mary's Street with his huge £40,000 black Lincoln Navigator. The bay is just yards away from the 570-space multi-storey car park behind Kendal's - which charges £3.50 for an hour's parking - but Diouf, who earns a reported £35,000 a week, was able to park for free. A man who came to drop his disabled wife off at Kendal's said: "I have been waiting for this guy to move for about 20 minutes or so. "It's not right. I was going to go in shopping with my wife but I can't now because I will get booked if I leave my car here on double yellows." Claims adjuster Jonathan Black, 33, who works nearby, was so incensed he went out to the car and put a note on A4 paper under the windscreen wiper. Difficult The note said: "Don't park in a disabled space. You are able-bodied. People need this space more than you, what you have done is wrong." He said: "This makes me so mad. My mother is disabled so she depends on parking spaces like this. I see this kind of thing all the time. "It makes life so difficult for disabled people, it's just not right. He's a football player so obviously he's not disabled!" Diouf is with Bolton on a season-long loan from Liverpool. The Senegal international, who starred in the 2002 World Cup, has hit the headlines since moving to England for his habit of spitting at opposing players and fans. Diouf was out shopping with a friend and his car was also seen parked in a loading bay on South King Street. As he returned to his car in the disabled bay near Kendal's on Friday afternoon, the soccer star and his friend apologised when confronted by the M.E.N. Diouf said: "I do not speak English very well. I am sorry, sorry." His friend added: "We could not find a space, we are very, very sorry."
