Chelsea and England football star Glen Johnson has been fined for shoplifting a lavatory seat and a set of taps from B&Q.

The ?30,000-a-week defender, currently on loan to Portsmouth, was spotted by security guards removing the seat from its packaging.

He was then seen to put it in the box of a cheaper version with the help of Millwall's Ben May on Wednesday at about 5.30pm.

The pair, both 22, were also seen to hide an expensive set of tap fittings under an upturned sink on their trolley.

Police arrested the footballers at the store in Dartford after they had paid for the cheaper seat and the sink. They were taken to the manager's office were they were shown CCTV pictures of their actions.

A worker at the store said: "We all recognised Johnson."

He added that nobody could believe the star would be "moronic" enough to steal the items. The pair were both given onthe-spot fines of ?80.

Silly sod, but you cant help but laugh.

Other than that - is an 80 quid fine all you get these days ?

Thats the Millwall influence for you

More worrying is the question "what was Glen Johnson doing shopping for a toilet seat with Ben May????"

probably gonna use it for shooting practise

What a prat.

If he could just sort his head and home life out he would be a top class defender.

weird one that, when you think with all the Tapping up in football Glen decides to nick some Taps, then gets a Tap on the shoulder

weird one that, when you think with all the Tapping up in football Glen decides to nick some Taps, then gets a Tap on the shoulder

That was plumbing the depths of humour

Do you think his carreer is down the pan?

well he is starting to be a Drain on the team and could probobly do with an early Bath.

he never really fitted into our Cistern properly did he

sorry I never meant to Sink to that

i though you guys were cool until this page

Definitely not cool - Im feeling a bit flushed

time we pulled the Plug on this thread

maybe he needed a new hat

Chelsea and England football star

He isn't a Chelsea star atm is he? It should say "Portsmouth and England football star".

The media really likes to drag us down in the mud. Next time it will be "Possible future Chelsea star Ronaldinho steals a saddle"

Good God that boy drives me round the u-bend.

Next one making another awful joke about Johnno will get heavily spanked by my three legged elk

Think we're getting bogged down in this thread.

Perhaps he wasn't feeling too flushed on that day

I expect it was a bit of a cheeky prank that went wrong - bet he feels like a bit of an arse now.

I wonder who lifted the lid on this story

Things have really come to a head now for Jonno

(maybe only sea going types will get that one)

if he's not careful his career will go down the pan.

Wow. You guys are on a roll.

But the jokes are paper thin

now we know why johnno did it- the cracks are appearing in our defence.

We need him back, our current defensive options are sh*t.