Former Manchester United player and Socceroo pleaded guilty to reckless driving after a dispute with a cyclist in Sydney

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Former football star-turned-commentator Mark Bosnich has been placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond for clipping the back wheel of a cyclist.

The former Manchester United and Socceroos goalkeeper “clipped” the back wheel of the cyclist following a confrontation in Sydney’s central business district on 21 May 2014.



Before the incident, the rider had allegedly thrown a bike lock at the Fox Sports presenter’s passenger-side mirror.



Bosnich, 43, pleaded guilty in April to reckless driving after prosecutors dropped the words “furiously” and “dangerous” from the charge.

Police facts tendered to the court said Bosnich “turned his steering wheel into the direction of the victim” after the two had a dispute about lane-changing on Erskine street.

Bosnich wound down a window in his black BMW and told the cyclist: “Champion, you gotta pull a little to the left, you can’t keep to the middle of the road.”

He then drove past the cyclist but when he had to slow down due to traffic, according to the facts tendered, the cyclist threw an object at the passenger-side mirror of Bosnich’s car.

“At this stage the accused has turned his steering wheel into the direction of the victim and moved forward, causing the [front] of his vehicle to collide into the rear of the victim’s bicycle wheel,” the facts state.

“The collision caused the victim to fall from his bicycle onto the ground.”

The victim was taken to hospital and found to have sustained injuries to his ribs and left elbow.

Police said Bosnich cooperated with them throughout the investigation.

Bosnich also played for Aston Villa and Chelsea in the English Premier League in the 1990s and early 2000s, before becoming a television presenter.