Malty said:
Why is there no top footballers ever caught doping?
PFA chief executive, Gordon Taylor, opposed new regulations."We feel that to invade the privacy ofa player's home would be a step too far.
New drug test scheme a 'step too far', says GordonTaylor,P L footballers are to fight the introduction of a new Wada drug-testing code
2 former team doctors of Eintracht Braunschweig confessed administering Captagon to players of club in the 1970s and 80's..
Peter Neururer, accused former club FC Schalke of doping, alleging almost all players in 1980s took illegal substance.
Arsene Wenger-
"We have had some players come to us at Arsenal from other clubs abroad and their red blood cell count has been abnormally high," he said at the time. An increased red blood cell count is consistent with EPO use.
"That kind of thing makes you wonder," he said. "There are clubs who dope their players without the players knowing. The club might say that they were being injected with vitamins and the player would not necessarily know that it was something different."
That tallies with the Almeyda testimony. The suspicions and accusations don't stop there.
The sports historian, Erik Eggers, has uncovered evidence which suggests that the West Germany team, during the 1954 World Cup, were under the influence of pervitin - a methamphetamine used in the trenches of World War II. West Germany produced a superhuman performance to beat leggy favourites Hungary in the final with Magyar talisman Ferenc Puskas patently unfit. If only he could have had what the Germans allegedly had. Syringes were found to be discarded on the West German dressing room floor in the aftermath by a caretaker at Bern's Wankdorf stadium.
