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Footballer fails drug test
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:20 am
by randyandy
As a North End supporter I am a little angry by this but as we are just a Championship side nothing will be done to help our club which is desperately in need of money. Funds they would have got if they had gone to the Playoff Final.
What he took is irrelevant, as far as I am concerned, the fact that it helped him play against us, bearing in mind a keeper doesn't just do shot stopping they also organise a teams entire defensive play, is.
Sheff Utd got compensation for Tevez should North End get compensation for them using a drug cheat?
Re: Footballer fails drug test
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:32 am
by jj
randyandy wrote:
> Sheff Utd got compensation for Tevez should North End get
> compensation for them using a drug cheat?
This is a can of worms that the FA seems content to let lie [he
said, massively mixing his metaphors...].
Re: Footballer fails drug test
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:18 pm
by colonel
Oh massive indeed...more rumours on the Net this week about a big name.
Re: Footballer fails drug test
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:17 pm
by crofter
yeah the names that big that Colonel cannot spell it ... spit it out man!!
Is it R********* *A****** *****T****??
Re: Footballer fails drug test
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:41 am
by JamesW
"the fact that it helped him play against us, bearing in mind a keeper doesn't just do shot stopping they also organise a teams entire defensive play"
I'm not sure that a cold remedy would help a goalkeeper that much in organising a team's entire defensive play. It depends how bad the cold was I suppose and how well the remedy worked.
Re: Footballer fails drug test
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:30 am
by jj
Cold-remedies usually include sedatives/soporifics- so the effects
would probably be disadvantageous.
Re: Footballer fails drug test
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:32 am
by randyandy
If the remedy made him available for the game James then it in turn helped put him in a position to organise the entire teams defensive play.
Re: Footballer fails drug test
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:37 am
by Peter
randyandy wrote:
> If the remedy made him available for the game James then it in
> turn helped put him in a position to organise the entire teams
> defensive play.
Never understood why some drugs that enable someone to play when otherwise they couldn't are illegal, yet others aren't, but give the same result.
eg. Cold cure remedy = bad, pain killing injection = OK.
Re: Footballer fails drug test
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:20 am
by jj
Good point- there's little consistency or logic in the FA's approach.
Re: Footballer fails drug test
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:27 am
by jimbo_125
What makes this situation even more absured is the cold cure he took comes in both a pill and a liquid form.
He took the pill, but had he taken the liquid version of the remedy then he would not have broken the rules.
2 forms of the same product, yet 1 is illegal where as another is legal.