United players are jailed for high-speed racing

A MANCHESTER United player who took part in a high-speed road race which caused a crash and left two people hurt was yesterday imprisoned.

Mads Timm, 20, and his 19-year-old former team-mate Callum Flanagan, who has since left the club, sped along a 40mph road in Partington, Manchester, after finishing a training session at around 1pm on January 14 last year.

They had been racing along roads in convoy at high speed when the crash happened.