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"*begs* please let it be Henry *begs*"

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Henry, Reyes or Vieira please, or if not, I might be pleased with Sol Campbell. Grr.

Wonder who it is, seriously. And what the FA will punish them with.

*crosses fingers their first name isn't 'Ledley'*

I think what they were thinking with Rio, was that they should give him that punishment as he could have tested for any drug, even a performance enhancing one. Missing a test is seen as failing it, so they have to decide what type of drug they should give you the ban for....

Mutu took something that was not performance enhancing, it just showed that he is completely stupid. Although I do feel a bit sorry for him, because he is a great talent.

From what i have heard on the radio, it is likely he will get away without a ban. Taylor, of the PFA, was saying that in line with the FA rules, the banned substance Mutu used was for recreational purposes, and not performance enhancing, so it was more to do with a personal problem than it is to do with the game. Something along those lines anyway.

Not sure if i agree with that mind.

I feel sorry for him to be honest...it's probably not his fault he became depressed or whatever, and he obviously found solace in these parties and inevitably fell into drugs.

Give him a shorter ban, and give him one more chance.

8 months it was

Saw that he admitted taking cocaine.

They need to be hard on him if it is proved. Rio gets banned for 6 months (I think?) for missing a random test, if he fails a test for something like cocaine then surely its only fair for him to be given a much harder punishment.

Oh dear oh dear.

This is truly senseless.

I knew the FA were daft but this is beyond stupidity:

"....Popescu revealed the striker was "destroyed" but Mutu now hopes to escape with a six-month ban from football..."

from bbc website

"...If the player accepts that he is guilty and if he is prepared to undertake rehabilitation, be checked regularly and to be clean then there is greater sympathy towards the player...."

from itv website

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"great symapathy towards the player"
"6 month ban"

If this is the case then excuse me but the guy has tested positive for cocaine? (possibly for social purposes) - the poor guy!

So everyone lets all be sympathetic towards a guy who has taken drugs and a shoulder to cry on and alternativly give someone who merely misses a test to be given a load of abuse and ban him for longer.

Yes.. that makes sense. Weldone FA at throwing the book at him and not promoting drugs in sport.

Not been the best year for him has it? Having started off so well last season, then being pretty much a non entity, and now facing a possible 2 year ban?

It annoys me when players do things like this, they have a chance at doing something with thier lives that some of us can only dream of, and then throw it all away.

lalakersrule wrote:
> Oh they don't name this guy but they couldn't bloody wait to tell
> everyone it was Ferdinand who missed his.

Well, being pedantic I'd say that the Ferdinand case was a certainty that he was in the wrong.

In this case however, the player may have been slipped them or may be retested...

Foreman wrote:
> It'd be so funny if it was Ferdinand again, but that would never
> happen.

Yeh, he wouldn't have turned up for the test :D