Former striker Dean Saunders has been freed from jail one day into a 10-week sentence for failing to provide a breath specimen when stopped by police while driving.
The 55-year-old looked crestfallen when he realised he was going to jail on Wednesday after admitting at Chester Magistrates' Court failing to comply with a roadside breath test and failing to provide a breath specimen.
Police had stopped Saunders – who broke the British transfer record when he joined Liverpool from Derby for £2.9m in 1991 – after spotting his car veering across the road in the early hours of May 10 this year in Boughton, Chester.
On Thursday, his lawyers launched a bail application, held in private without access to press or public.
Judge Steven Everett granted Saunders bail until his appeal against the jail sentence is heard on October 4.
Saunders's solicitor, Conor Johnstone, said: "Clearly, he will be relieved."
No bail conditions were imposed, Mr Johnstone said.
The father of three – who was capped by Wales 75 times – had been branded "arrogant" by District Judge Nicholas Sanders when he passed sentence on Wednesday.
He said: "Throughout these proceedings you have shown yourself to be arrogant, thinking you are someone whose previous and current role in the public eye entitles you to be above the law.
"In fact the opposite is true - someone in the public eye should expect a deterrent sentence when they flout the law."
