Footballer who tested positive for cocaine to be named
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The Scum said:
Top Premier footie ace is 'on cocaine'
TV show will name
him tonight
By ALEX PEAKE
Published: Today
THE identity of a top Premier League footballer who tested positive for cocaine will be revealed tonight.
He was later sold by his club in a multimillion pound deal but his new team were not told of the drug test, a TV investigation claims.
The star will be named by Channel 4 show Dispatches as it focuses on the use of recreational and performance-enhancing drugs in football.
The show claims to have discovered the identities of dozens of footballers who have failed drugs tests for cocaine and cannabis.
Their names have been kept secret by the Football Association and their clubs.
It is also claimed 240 drugs tests had to be abandoned between April 2007 and August 2010 after officials turned up at training grounds to discover the players were not there.
The show claims to have official documents that show three former England internationals and one Scottish star faced doping investigations after suspicious levels of testosterone were found in their urine.
All four were later cleared of wrongdoing.
David Howman of the World Anti Doping Agency said the FA needed to be more open about drug testing.
He added: "If you don't, then you are susceptible to an allegation you're hiding something."
The FA said it abides by the World Anti Doping Agency code.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3808119/...TV show will name
him tonight
By ALEX PEAKE
Published: Today
THE identity of a top Premier League footballer who tested positive for cocaine will be revealed tonight.
He was later sold by his club in a multimillion pound deal but his new team were not told of the drug test, a TV investigation claims.
The star will be named by Channel 4 show Dispatches as it focuses on the use of recreational and performance-enhancing drugs in football.
The show claims to have discovered the identities of dozens of footballers who have failed drugs tests for cocaine and cannabis.
Their names have been kept secret by the Football Association and their clubs.
It is also claimed 240 drugs tests had to be abandoned between April 2007 and August 2010 after officials turned up at training grounds to discover the players were not there.
The show claims to have official documents that show three former England internationals and one Scottish star faced doping investigations after suspicious levels of testosterone were found in their urine.
All four were later cleared of wrongdoing.
David Howman of the World Anti Doping Agency said the FA needed to be more open about drug testing.
He added: "If you don't, then you are susceptible to an allegation you're hiding something."
The FA said it abides by the World Anti Doping Agency code.
http://www.tvguide.co.uk/detail.asp?id=103149917
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Countdown said:
With my dunce's hat on can I ask why taking recreational (non performance enhancing) drugs results in bans ?
In the contract?Guessing its pretty much like the normal contract that they sign like some normal employees do, were they have must undertake random drugs test and be absolutely clean to work and so its an offence.
Du1point8 said:
Countdown said:
With my dunce's hat on can I ask why taking recreational (non performance enhancing) drugs results in bans ?
In the contract?Guessing its pretty much like the normal contract that they sign like some normal employees do, were they have must undertake random drugs test and be absolutely clean to work and so its an offence.
The media talks about such people being role models for young children which annoys the feck out of me. If that was the reason for the ban it would annoy me
As it says in the article, If they know they will test positive they simply don't turn up at training 
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