naughty rio!!

[The Greatest Brain]

haha, wouldn't take a drug test now he is booted from the england squad.

 

[Craig]

England's chances of winning go down now.

 

[suburbanknight]

England's chances of winning go down now.

Nah, not really Craig. He's been crap recently anyway.

 

[chileman]

England's chances of winning go down now.

Nah, not really Craig. He's been crap recently anyway.

Ever since he left Leeds right SK ;-)

 

[suburbanknight]

England's chances of winning go down now.

Nah, not really Craig. He's been crap recently anyway.

Ever since he left Leeds right SK ;-)

:lol: Your not far wrong there mate!!! Other players also doing crap recently are..... Woodgate, Bowyer, Keane, Dacourt, Fowler and Kewell.


Oh and Jacob Burns. ;-)

 

[Mad Dogg]

Man Utd are looking at taking legal action against the FA, and rightly so. What ever happened to player confidentiality until they have been proven guilty? How is Rio supposed to get a fair trial when the media is blowing this into a bigger story than it is?

A story on ManchesterOnline

City player missed FA test

MANCHESTER UNITED have strong evidence to support their claim that Rio Ferdinand has been unfairly treated by the FA for failing to take a drugs test.

Manchester City player Christian Negouai also failed to take an FA drugs test early this year but was not "named and shamed" by the game's governing body as Ferdinand was yesterday when he was axed from the England team for Saturday's Euro 2004 qualifier in Turkey.

French midfielder Negouai was one of five City players picked out at random to provide a sample when an FA drug testing team arrived at the club's training complex in Carrington last January.
The tests were due to take place at noon but Negouai was allowed to leave the centre to meet his mother's plane at Liverpool Airport in the belief that he would be back at Carrington in time to take his test.

However Mrs Negouai's flight from France arrived two hours late and by the time the midfielder returned to Carrington the FA team had completed their tests on the other four players and had left the complex.

The reasons for Negouai's absence were explained to the FA by City secretary Bernard Halford and the test on Negouai was completed 24 hours later.

The results were negative as were the results carried out on his four team-mates the previous day. Negouai was ordered to appear before the FA in February to answer a charge of failing to take a random drugs test and was fined £2,000.
But at no stage between failing to take his test and appearing before the FA was it revealed that Negouai had not been present at the appointed time to provide the required sample.
Nor was he banned from playing for his club while awaiting the outcome of his disciplinary hearing.
The FA’s treatment of Negouai eight months ago is in sharp contrast to the instant punishment which was dished out to Ferdinand yesterday for an identical breach of drug testing regulations.
And the secretive and sensible way in which the FA disciplined Negouai will further enrage United who feel that Ferdinand has been made an example of by being named and dropped from the England squad before being given the chance to explain why he failed to take a drugs test at the Reds training centre at Carrington Moss two weeks ago.

United are furious that the FA have not used the code of confidentiality which protects all players involved in a disciplinary procedure involving drugs.
The Reds are equally incensed that by “naming and shaming“ their England defender, the FA have seriously tarnished the reputation of Ferdinand.

And while the Reds accept that the FA have the right to sanction Ferdinand for failing to take his original test, they insist that the defender’s name should not have been revealed and nor should he have been omitted from the England squad ahead of next week’s disciplinary hearing.
And the manner in which the FA handled the Negouai breach of drug regulations will only strengthen United’s belief that Ferdinand has been made a scapegoat for an innocent mistake for no reasons other than that he is a high-profile player on the pay-roll of a high-profile club.

 

[The Greatest Brain]

england players want to boycott the turkey game now if RIo is not allowed back in the team, if they do boycott then england will be thrown out of euro 2004 :?

 

[Mad Dogg]

I don't think it's the players that are talking about boycotting the game. I think it's the players union, trying to stir up support for Rio.

 

[chileman]

Well this has turned into a ripe old pickle! :roll: English supporters around the UK would go nuts if England boycotted the game and were disqualified!

 

[PB]

Rio is scum!

Anyone who leaves Ellend Rd for Old Trafford deserves what is coming to them!

:twisted: ;-)

 

[Craig]

Then Madd Duck, you believe this is a case of double standards?

 

[Munky]

He's a professional and he missed a compulsory drugs test. Too bad. He had to be dropped. The wallabies dropped Flatley for missing a recovery session and missing a drug test could be seen as worse.

 

[Mad Dogg]

Then Madd Duck, you believe this is a case of double standards?

Just a bit.

Case 1 - Man City player, a relative nobody (no offence to him) misses the test but gets back in a few hours to see if he can still do it. The testers are already gone, so he does it 24 hours later. He is fined a paltry sum, and his name is held strictly confidential until after the hearing.

Case 2 - Man Utd player, a famous star, forgets the test but calls back in a few hours to see if he can come back and do it. The testers are already gone, so he does it 36 hours later. With his hearing yet to be started, the FA release his name and do not allow him to play for his national team.

The thing that p*sses me off most is the fact they released his name. If he ends up being penalized worse than what the Man City player did, I can accept it. I don't agree with it, but I can accept it. But the FA deliberately broke their own rules, not only in releasing his name, but in announcing (and seemingly promoting) the maximum penalty of 2 years out of the game.

 

[hybrid_tiger]

England's chances of winning go down now.

Nah, not really Craig. He's been crap recently anyway.

Ever since he left Leeds right SK ;-)

:lol: Your not far wrong there mate!!! Other players also doing crap recently are..... Woodgate, Bowyer, Keane, Dacourt, Fowler and Kewell.


Oh and Jacob Burns. ;-)

Dacourt has played pretty well for Roma since his move from Leeds. He is very clumsy though, and has a tendancy to pick up too many yellow cards whcih could have been avoided.