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Originally Posted by mertle
damien that article awful for endorsement that football clean. Infact player says he been only ever tested twice. If 16 tests could not catch amstrong or others in cycling cheating. How many has been missed by the laughable testing in football.
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Tested twice after a game. Not ever. They mostly depend on randomised testing because you would have to be pretty stupid to get caught after a game. Armstrong avoided getting caught because he roughly knew when the rests would be and developed the program around that. In fact, football has long taken the approach that would have caught Armstrong.
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If we want fair and level playing field then its natural to test. As the argument its very popular etc in public domian so its clean. American football/baseball is big and cycling popular worldwide sports.
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We do test.
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The money in the game is enough to be worried that some not all may take illegal methods to win at all costs mentality.
I love football damien I would love to say its clean but quite honestly I would be shocked if it is.
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I would the shocked if there are doping programmes similar to cycling in top-level football. The benefits aren't as pronounced as football is not primarily a test of physicality even if it helps and the attention is much higher. I cannot imagine a situation where a club routinely dopes, or willingly overlooks it, and it doesn't come out. There probably will be isolated cases of stupid players. Let's not forget Rio Ferdinand got a 8 month ban for simply missing a drugs test although he was proved to be clean. They take this stuff seriously.