Concern grows over FA's drugs policy</font>
Duncan Mackay
Tuesday November 1, 2005
</font>The Guardian</font> (http://www.guardian.co.uk/)
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English professional footballer has tested positive for cocaine three
times in 18 months but will avoid a life ban. The teenager is instead
to be sent for rehabilitation. </font>
In any other
Olympic sport, a competitor can expect to receive a life ban after the
second offence. This latest incident coincides with the news that
another unnamed player has been banned for six months after testing
positive for cocaine. His case is set to be the only serious positive
in quarterly figures released by UK Sport, the government organisation
in charge of drug testing, at a meeting in London today. </font>
The fact
the Football Association is refusing to take severe action or to
identify the player will add to fears that it is refusing to take the
problem seriously. The secrecy surrounding this most recent positive
test, which is believed to involve a youth-team player from a club
outside the Premiership, will strengthen calls in the independent Burns
Report into the FA's structure for drugs cases to be heard in public,
with published transcripts and a written explanation of decisions.</font>
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Appears its a teenager which makes sense to some extent.
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Thats completely Rooney..../erm, i mean Looney.
