PL Player tests positive for "banned substance"

smuckers

The Mail On Sunday claims its the "injured" Adrian Mutu, silly boy has been on the wacky backy. If true he's finished.

thejollyrodger

can you give any more information than "wacky backy". Is that not a term that is commonly used to describe cannibas? I cant see his carrer ending completly just for that. Or was it something stronger ?

Big Ears

A 2 year ban for a player in his early to mid 20's , I can't see this being the end of his carear .

smuckers

thejollyrodger wrote:

can you give any more information than "wacky backy". Is that not a term that is commonly used to describe cannibas? I cant see his carrer ending completly just for that. Or was it something stronger ?

Sorry I was doing The Gareth Keenan approach (The Office)

Jivin Turkey

He is supposed to be a bit of a playboy alright so I could see it being true. He gets as much publicitiy in Romania as Beckham does in England.

smuckers

He spends too much time in clubs chatting up anything in a skirt. He's not right in the head either.

KdjaCL

smuckers wrote:

He spends too much time in clubs chatting up anything in a skirt. He's not right in the head either.

yeah the bastard on 80 grand a week and doing that


kdjac

thejollyrodger

yeah the bastard on 80 grand a week and doing that

Not any more HAHAHAHA:)

Boro

Tested positive for coke and dropped by pepsi - how ironic is that?

cournioni

There used to be cocaine in Coke actually afaik. Pepsi could drop him for breach of contract!

Wouldn't be surprised from everything I've read in the papers about him. Seems to be a bit on the mental side... But then again, the tabloids would tell you anything to sell papers.

Nuttzz

Well its offical now

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/3750588.stm

Mutu admits to drugs test failure

Adrian Mutu will not face a second drugs test after admitting to testing positive for cocaine, the Professional Footballers' Association has revealed.

thejollyrodger

He seems like a bit of a mad buck anyway. The night before the Champions league match with Arsenal he was out on the town and had a full bottle of red wine and a full bottle of white wine and smoked something like 60 fags.

DRakE

Boro wrote:

Tested positive for coke and dropped by pepsi - how ironic is that?

HAHAHAHAHA

woosaysdan

i think that pepsi are not the only ones that will drop him!!! memories of bosnich come floating back!!!

mayordenis

well i actually feel sorry for him although he does seem like a meet of an eejit

thejollyrodger

he admitted he took the coke and I reckon he will get off with a 6 months ban since coke is only seen as a recreational drug in soccer. I cant see him staying on in Chelsea though after all that.

PHB

6 months?

I think he'd be lucky to get that, he'll get at least a year, if hes lucky it won't be two

eirebhoy

6 months is fair enough. If it was a performance enhancing drug things would be different though. He'll definitely get more than 6 anyway.

cournioni

If he gets 6 months it'll be a complete joke. Especially as Rio Ferdinand got 8 months for missing a drugs test, and then taking one when he realised he was wrong.

eirebhoy

PORNAPSTER wrote:

If he gets 6 months it'll be a complete joke. Especially as Rio Ferdinand got 8 months for missing a drugs test, and then taking one when he realised he was wrong.

When a player misses a drugs test there is always a risk that he could have taken PE drugs. I know it was proven that Rio didn't take anything but the in the FA's eyes, missing a test is missing a test and rules are rules. Mutu took a recreational drug that is doing himself more harm than good and it is completely different to drugs that are taken to gain an advantage.

All recreational drugs do is give the sport a bad name. Cheating and given the sport a bad name are two different things and have to be treated as that IMO. Also the fact that he admitted he took it out of hand and isn't wasting any of the FA's time has to come into account.

thejollyrodger

who needs enemies when you got managers like that !

Mourinho tip-off led to drug bust
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=94&si=1271108&issue_id=11565

AS Chelsea's Adrian Mutu yesterday admitted testing positive for cocaine on October 1, it emerged that he was deliberately targeted by the doping authorities at the request of his manager, Jose Mourinho.

Mutu, 25, has confessed to taking drugs in the hope that it will reduce the chances of a two-year ban. According to English FA's anti-doping regulations, there is a theoretical possibility that the Romanian might not serve any ban at all, if "a period of assessment, counselling, treatment or rehabilitation" is deemed more appropriate.

With the FA keen to clamp down on drug abuse, that is unlikely. Yet the striker might yet escape with a ban of only six months due to his penitence. Mutu's decision not to have his B sample tested will count in his favour because it a tacit confirmation of drug abuse.

Neither Chelsea nor the FA would comment on the subject yesterday. The Professional Footballers' Association confirmed, however, that it is seeking a swift hearing, and leniency, for Mutu. "Mutu's accepted that he did test positive for cocaine, and so we've got to deal with it under the social drugs procedure that we have in line with the FA," Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the PFA, said.

Taylor said that a distinction is made between recreational drugs and performance-enhancing drugs. "If the player accepts he is guilty and is prepared to undertake rehabilitation, to be checked regularly, to be clean, there is great sympathy towards the player," he said. He added that WADA, the world anti-doping agency, is reluctant to make such distinctions, "so that may well create a problem."

Under WADA's anti-doping regime, a two-year ban can be imposed for positive drugs tests in any sport. The FA will also consider the dictat from FIFA that drugs offences should be dealt with seriously.

If the FA charges Mutu and finds him guilty, which seems inevitable, the only remaining issue will be the severity of the sentence. FA rules dictate a minimum six-month ban for a first offence.

Mourinho was constrained yesterday in what he could say about Mutu, beyond confirming that he was not fit for tonight's match with CSKA Moscow and that he had "no idea" when the player would be fit.

Mutu's agents, Victor Becali, had already confirmed that Mourinho had effectively shopped his player by requesting the test. "Mourinho asked for the test after Mutu failed to show up at training soon after the Paris Saint Germain match (on September 14)," Becali said. "The test was held on October 1. I think Mourinho's decision followed Mutu's bizarre attitude."
(© Independent News Service)

Nick Harris