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Originally Posted by mertle
There been shadows around topflight football for awhile. No doubt ability gets you so far and fitness programmes and train gets you other marginal gains. I question how much that gains beyond say championship clubs without some sort outside help.
Why are we get young pro players have heart attacks. To me something wrong its like super athletes on steriods at times the game played. We getting rubbish from fifa saying doping does not help improve footballers in games and football the cleanest sport out there.
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I'd be surprised if they did have a widespread testing programme. They'd lose too much.
Think about it. These players are payed hundreds of thousands a week. They are bought and sold form 10s of millions of pounds. These players get that money because they are able to play premiere league football week after week. I'd be shocked if at least some of them were not on some sort of drug to enhance their performance.
In the meantime, the clubs rely on the players being able to produce this performance week in week out. As such, I'd be surprised if they actually have any more than a cursory glance at what the players are taking. It's not in their interest to. If they do, and a player is taking some illegal drug, and they punish or report him, that player may be out for a while. Still, presumably, costing the club money and not bringing any in.
It's like Hollywood in the 40s and 50s. Although they appeared to, the Studios didn't really care that a lot of stars spent a lot of their time off their heads on various drugs as long as those stars performed (in some cases, taking advantage of the energy boost given by certain drugs to star in more films).
While the various authorities will undoubtedly make a lot of noise about checking players, and the various clubs will make a lot of noise supporting them, I'll lay odds that the larger clubs will secretly do as little as possible to co-operate.