Quite what a professional footballer was doing out at 5.30am on January 24, driving along the Fulham Road is one one thing. But to be pulled over by the police and then charged with driving a car while over the drink-drive limit is quite another.
Mikel was suspended for Chelsea's FA Cup match against Ipswich Town later that day so was never going to be playing.
He will appear at West London Magistrates' Court on April 3