Footballer banned for 2 years

[cmb211087]

Apparantly a footballer has been banned for 2 years for missing a drug test. It was just on 5 live and sky, but they can't release his name or the teams name at this time over fears he will harm himself...

Edited January 14, 2008 by cmb211087

[Baddar]

Ugh. Nothing on Setanta yet.

[Gazz]

Apparantly a football has been banned for 2 years for missing a drug test. It was just on 5 live and sky, but they can't release his name or the teams name at this time over fears he will harm himself...

Reg Hollis?

Seriously though, it'll be a Newcastle player, or an ex-Newcastle player, Keiron Dyer, I'm looking at you, you depressed little waster...

[cmb211087]

A professional footballer has been banned for two years for failing to take a drugs test but he will not be named.

The player's identity would normally be made public but a clause in the agreement between the Football Association and anti-doping agency UK Sport means he will not be named if there is a danger the person involved may harm themselves.

The player, who is not well-known, flatly refused to provide a sample of urine when testers from UK Sport visited his club.

He was suspended for two years by a Football Association disciplinary commission. UK Sport reviewed the FA's decision not to name him and agreed that there was a risk to the player's mental and physical health if he were named.

It is only the second time a footballer has been suspended for failing to comply with a drugs test since Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand was banned for eight months in 2004.

A year later, Torquay's Icelandic international goalkeeper Olafur Gottskalksson was banned indefinitely by the FA for refusing to take a drugs test.

After viewing the list of banned substances, he left the club and never returned or played professional football again.

Meh, that sucks, not well known

[King Ellis]

It'll be in one of the Sunday shit rags, some kind of silohoutted picture I should imagine.

[Hobo]

Apparantly a football has been banned for 2 years for missing a drug test. It was just on 5 live and sky, but they can't release his name or the teams name at this time over fears he will harm himself...

You should probably edit that....

[Colly]

I'm guessing someones going to notice eventually their star striker has vanished for a little while. Louis Saha? He'd come under the 'ex-Newcastle' category too, I think I'm on to something...

[The Quasi Juice]

I'm guessing someones going to notice eventually their star striker has vanished for a little while. Louis Saha? He'd come under the 'ex-Newcastle' category too, I think I'm on to something...

[Scott McFly]

As the article says, they're not well known, so it's probably some League Two nobody. Just like it was a let down a few years back when Garry Flitcroft was the mystery Premiership player in deep shit over having an affair or someting or other.

[cmb211087]

People are speculating that its Dave Kitson, because he refused to give cops a test when he got pulled over for speeding/drink driving. But then again he is fairly well known

[TheArsenal]

I can think of quite a few players who seem to vanish in every match anyway...

[Guest TheBlueyComplex]

However, who is well known? How many Brits could name the starting XI's of every Premiership side? I'm betting it's someone from a bottom-10 side.

[TheArsenal]

By saying "not well known" it makes me think of a real nobody from a lower league. I mean, you don't have to be a superstar to be well known in football.

Where can I find this article?

[cmb211087]

I copied it from http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=7237818 but it is up on other places too

[Guest Ringmaster]

When I saw this, I first thought "please be Jenas, please be Jenas", but noooo, it had to be some guy no one knows! :@

[IAceI]

Jenas as in, dominated the midfield against Reading in the Cup Jenas?

¬_¬

[Lineker]

Jenas as in, dominated the midfield against Reading in the Cup Jenas?

¬_¬

Yup, that's the one.

[Dan]

I don't understand why Jenas gets so much shit.

He always seems to play well when I've seen Spurs play.

[Guest Ringmaster]

He plays well a game out of five, the rest of the time, he gets the ball, kicks it as hard as he can and as far as he can and then shakes his head in disgust before doing the same thing for the rest of the game. He also can't pass at all and he only really scores if its a tap-in.

I will say this though, under Ramos he's been better, but I still hope he dies.

[Lineker]

Us Spurs fans generally don't like Jenas, we just have massive Huddlestone boners.

Yup.