TOWN coach Terry Yorath escaped jail today when he was sentenced for drink driving.
Yorath was given a community rehabilitation order, a 30-month driving ban and a £500 fine for the offence.
The Huddersfield Town first team coach was also ordered to pay court costs of £40.
Yorath was in the dock at Leeds Magistrates' Court to be sentenced for being more than three times the legal drink-drive limit when he knocked down a woman in Leeds in June.
Ironically, he appeared in court on the day his former club, Leeds United, hosted Town in a Carling Cup tie at Elland Road.
Yorath, 54, also had a distinguished international career as a player and manager of Wales.
Yorath, whose daughter Gabby Logan was fronting ITV's coverage of England's Euro 2004 clash with Portugal at the time of the crash, described the incident as "the worst thing that's ever happened to me".
The former Wales coach - who works with manager Peter Jackson at Town - was driving his Jaguar X-type in Leeds on June 24 when he mounted the central reservation and hit 27-year-old call centre worker Raziya Aslam.
She suffered head injuries and a broken pelvis in the accident.
Yorath was found to have 120 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath, the court heard. The maximum permitted level is 35 micrograms.
Yorath pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol and driving without due care and attention, at Leeds Magistrates Court earlier this month.
He was given an interim driving ban and had been warned that "all options" would be considered when he was sentenced at the same court today.
The court was told he had split from his wife Christine.
Yorath had a distinguished playing career, captaining his country and winning 59 caps.
He was part of the formidable Leeds side of the 1970s, winning the old First Division in 1974.
He coached Wales from 1988 to 1993, and led them to within a whisker of qualification for the 1994 World Cup.
