BOLTON Wanderers' controversial striker, El Hadji Diouf, has been fined by a Senegalese court for pushing the ex-wife of a team-mate during a quarrel.

Aichatou Ba, the former wife of Diouf's Bolton colleague, Khalilou Fadiga, had accused the striker of beating her up in a nightclub in Dakar in July. She said the attack left her unfit to work for 25 days.

But Diouf's lawyer, Demba Cire Bathily, said: "The court recognised there was small contact between Diouf and Ba.

"Ba wanted to talk to Diouf and stood in his way. Diouf pushed her slightly."

The prosecutor in the civil case had demanded a six-month jail sentence for Diouf, but his plea was rejected.

Instead, Diouf was fined 500,000 Senegalese francs £522.

Last month, Bolton magistrates banned Diouf from driving for 12 months after he was found guilty of a drink-driving offence.

The 24-year-old striker had been out drinking Champagne to celebrate a Premier League win.

He was also fined £500 by a court in Middlesbrough in November after he admitted a charge of disorderly conduct for spitting on a fan during a Premier League match.

The charge, under the Public Order Act, related to the Middlesbrough v Bolton game at the Riverside Stadium on November 7, 2004 Diouf left with his Senegal team mates for Egypt on Tuesday for the African Nations Cup finals which begin on Friday.