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Major Drug Scandal At Top English Club


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I'm agreeing with you. What I'm saying is the authorities don't want random testing brought in as they are aware there will be a huge problem.

Sorry, I missed your point, but I agree, the sweet FA will do just that and the Premier League will do nothing that might tarnish the brand until football finds a Lance Armstrong or someone uncovers football's equivalent of cycling's Festina affair.

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It's a shame that not many Premier League clubs lend themselves to drug-inspired names.

 

The best I have is Evertoke.

 

Any others?

 

In the early 90s my mates and me had a custom team we created on Sensible Soccer called Tripout City. It included players like E'in Rush, Gary Speed and Diego Marijuana, among others which I can't remember now (Can't imagine why that would be! ;) )

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Apart, of course, from the fact that cocaine is a Class A narcotic and as such, it is an offence to possess or deal in it in this country.

 

It could also be argued that cocaine is performance-enhancing.

 

Google Ben Cousins. Phenomenal footy player but arguably played his best footy when heavily on illicit drugs.

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Doping with EPO and transfusions improves endurance and speed at threshold. Both useful to footballers especially in the final 15 mins of a gruelling game where that edge can mean beating a tiring opposition.

 

Doping with anabolic agents improves power and acceleration - very useful for explosive attacking runs, jumping for headers and bruising defending.

 

So I conclude that it is naive to think there is little or no football doping, given the ££ involved, the egos and the lack of policing.

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In the early 90s my mates and me had a custom team we created on Sensible Soccer called Tripout City. It included players like E'in Rush, Gary Speed and Diego Marijuana, among others which I can't remember now (Can't imagine why that would be! ;) )

 

You are not the only man to have enjoyed (and written about) a bit of Sensi.

 

http://www.wayoftherodent.com/guests/bob_pap3.htm

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Football isnt like endurance or power sports - where drugs give a significant advantage, especially in the build up to major events. Skill and tactics play a much larger role in football and playing every week rules out doping for a major competition. Im sure lots of players take recreational drugs - but I don't see why that's a problem for football particularly - cocaine / cannabis will likely have a negative effect on performance if anything. .

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/andrea-pirlo-deportivo-la-corua-were-so-crazy-they-may-have-been-on-drugs-to-topple-ac-milan-in-champions-league-quarterfinal-9259877.html

 

I agree, but Pirlo recently had this to say.

 

I don't know enough about performance enhancing drugs to know whether there are any out there that fit the bill for this, but it's interesting that Pirlo suggests it.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/andrea-pirlo-deportivo-la-corua-were-so-crazy-they-may-have-been-on-drugs-to-topple-ac-milan-in-champions-league-quarterfinal-9259877.html

 

I agree, but Pirlo recently had this to say.

 

I don't know enough about performance enhancing drugs to know whether there are any out there that fit the bill for this, but it's interesting that Pirlo suggests it.

 

 

Juventus 1994-1998 read up on it... Walking pharmacies all of them.

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Baseball doesn't exactly look like sport number 1 for drugs being an enhancement, but it now has a time known as the drug era. So with as little motion in this sport it must be an advantage to footballers.

 

 

Baseball was all about steroids and HGH I think, the more muscle you have the harder you can hit the ball...in theory at least.

I think in the case of the "major English club" it was more about recreational drugs used by officials. Juventus FC had a major performance enhacing drug system in the 90s but as the drugs weren't on the banned list for football at that time only the administering doctor got any punishment.

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Just had a vision of them snorting washing powder...

 

Funnily enough they'd have been better off smoking it... I was working in Portsmouth for a charity when the cleaners found half a dozen or so cannabis resin 8-bars ("what's this?") in some washing powder that had been donated by our dear customs and excise.. They obviously hadn't found all the consignment! Not being a smoker it didn't bother me, but I reckon some of my colleagues were upset not to find it!

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Funnily enough they'd have been better off smoking it... I was working in Portsmouth for a charity when the cleaners found half a dozen or so cannabis resin 8-bars ("what's this?") in some washing powder that had been donated by our dear customs and excise.. They obviously hadn't found all the consignment! Not being a smoker it didn't bother me, but I reckon some of my colleagues were upset not to find it!

 

Normally nine bars. Reckon they may have taxed it.;)

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