Just how much money did he make in his career, yet he stoops as low to attempt to use the badge?

That’s one big fine and it serves him right.

Former Manchester United footballer Ravel Morrison has been convicted of fraud after being caught using a dead person’s blue badge to park, Manchester City Council said.

During his interview under caution Morrison claimed he bought the badge from “someone in Old Trafford” for £50, the local authority said.

Morrison, 30, of Westbrook, Warrington, was charged with one count of fraud and on Thursday appeared before Manchester Magistrates’ Court to plead guilty to the offence, the council said.

He was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay costs of £508 and a victim surcharge of £400.

Morrison, who has represented Jamaica internationally and played for West Ham, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, QPR and Sheffield United among others, has been approached for comment by the PA news agency.

The local authority said that on May 22 its enforcement officers investigated a white Audi S3 parked in Bridgewater Street, Manchester, which was displaying a blue badge.