Jail-bound King sacked

Wigan have sacked striker Marlon King after he was sentenced to 18 months in jail for breaking a women’s nose in a London nightclub after she rejected his advances. "We won't tolerate footballers who get sent to jail for 18 months," fumed Wigan chairman Dave Whelan after the verdict. "We will follow the rules and serve him 14 days' notice. As far as we are concerned he is finished with Wigan Athletic." The Latics paid £4m for King but he has had a poor time at the club and was recently loaned to Hull and Middlesbrough. The Jamaican international will lose out on a staggering £2.7m when his £33,000-a-week is terminated. It’s not King’s first brush with law. In the past he was jailed for handling a stolen car and he was also convicted of drunken driving.