An investigation by i finds nine Premier League players escaped sanction despite testing positive for banned substances last season
Gossip and whispers about the drug-cheating that has scarred other sports is never far from the conversation in football, and the spectre has returned in the weeks sinceset out to find where the cracks in the detection systems lie and if the prospect of a Premier League team operating a mass doping scheme is even remotely realistic.
Nonetheless, speaking with doctors and medical practitioners with decades of combined experience in the Premier League and obtaining some testing data, “There will be no Premier League doctor or nutritionist or sports scientist that’s going to risk their job. You’ve got to think about the integrity of the club they work for. You’re not just putting yourself at risk, you’re putting the club at risk.”: “The cons outweigh the pros. You can get caught, you get banned, for what might be a one per cent advantage, maybe not even that.
And Professor Ranchordas holds a different view to the advantages performance-enhancing drugs could offer. “The game lasts 90 minutes, so it’s an endurance game. Things like blood doping, where you remove blood, do training and introduce it back in to increase the amount of red blood cells in a blood transfusion, that will benefit your endurance.
Recreational drug testing accounted for an extra 3,580 tests in the past two seasons, so it would also add to the deterrent factor. As does the rampant rise of data compiled at clubs.
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