When Will Football Have It's Drug Scandal?

[Prestwich_Blue]

...or no one's taking them.

Or no one's telling us that people have been caught, which we know for a fact has happened.

There was a City player who was supposedly injured for 6 months (the length of a standard drugs ban) but played for his country during that time.

As I said, I think you're a very naive person if you think there's no drugs being taken in football.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

So if the testing regime is so crap and Leicester won the league through using them...

Why did they stop?

Perhaps because that doctor was exposed by the Sunday Times just before they won the title?

There is a story that Ranieri was sacked and the players turned on him because he wouldn't let them go back to doping when it all died a death.

 

[FantasyIreland]

When many of the muscle Mary's in local gym's are using gear,it would be very naive to think professional sportsmen,with the potential to earn millions of pounds by gaining any advantage possible,are not using it.

 

[SpiritofBurnden]

When many of the muscle Mary's in local gym's are using gear,it would be very naive to think professional sportsmen,with the potential to earn millions of pounds by gaining any advantage possible,are not using it.

'Muscle Mary's' don't get long bans if they're caught.

Why would a professional footballer risk ruining their career for something that will only give them a negligible advantage, if any advantage at all?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

So how come no one has ever tested positive for anything other than a recreational drug?

Lance Armstrong never tested positive. But he was drugged up to the eyeballs. So that's a pretty flimsy argument isn't it?

 

[FantasyIreland]

'Muscle Mary's' don't get long bans if they're caught.

Why would a professional footballer risk ruining their career for something that will only give them a negligible advantage, if any advantage at all?

Youre not getting it are you? The benefits of PED's are huge,as has been explained in several posts in this thread.

Masking such drugs isnt difficult if you find yourself under expert supervision.

 

[SpiritofBurnden]

Lance Armstrong never tested positive. But he was drugged up to the eyeballs. So that's a pretty flimsy argument isn't it?

This wouldn't work in football, ask Rio Ferdinand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/sports/cycling/how-lance-armstrong-beat-cyclings-drug-tests.html

“The most conventional way that the U.S. Postal riders beat what little out-of-competition testing there was, was to simply use their wits to avoid the testers,” the report concluded."

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

This wouldn't work in football, ask Rio Ferdinand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/sports/cycling/how-lance-armstrong-beat-cyclings-drug-tests.html

“The most conventional way that the U.S. Postal riders beat what little out-of-competition testing there was, was to simply use their wits to avoid the testers,” the report concluded."

Fortunately for Camelgob, climbing out of a toilet window and legging it didn't require a great deal of wit.

 

[SpiritofBurnden]

Youre not getting it are you? The benefits of PED's are huge,as has been explained in several posts in this thread.

Masking such drugs isnt difficult if you find yourself under expert supervision.

Conspiracy theories aren't facts.

The benefits to footballers aren't 'huge'.

On the contrary, they stand to lose far more than they would gain.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Conspiracy theories aren't facts.

The benefits to footballers aren't 'huge'.

On the contrary, they stand to lose far more than they would gain.

Ok.you obviously live in a bubble so i'm out.