[Football] Anti doping agency raid the top 3 Portuguese clubs.

Stat Brother

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Portugal's anti doping agency turned up this morning at their top 3 teams, taking blood and urine samples specifically looking for PED's and EPO usage.

I'll bung in a link later, if anybody is interested.

 

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They must have been tipped off to go in that heavy. Given the money sloshing around in football I am stunned there hasn't been a lot more cases of doping, especially given the situation with Russian athletes.

 

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Stat Brother said:

Portugal's anti doping agency turned up this morning at their top 3 teams, taking blood and urine samples specifically looking for PED's and EPO usage.

I'll bung in a link later, if anybody is interested.

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I like it, could open people's eyes a little more to doping in sport.

or, if you'd like a different narrative...

Drugs don't help you kick a ball straight

 

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They shouldn't have let them in like Mo Farah used to do.

 

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I would be very surprised if, given the amount of money involved, there was no drug abuse in professional football, particularly in the leagues where most money is spent/earned

 

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Plooks said:

Drugs don't help you cycle straight either. I have never understood that terrible argument.

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Cycling is a lot more to do with fitness and muscle than football, whereas football is a lot more to do with technical ability and hand to eye coordination. Obviously PED's will help improve your performance in football but nothing in comparison to cycling, athletics etc

 

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Megazone said:

Cycling is a lot more to do with fitness and muscle than football, whereas football is a lot more to do with technical ability and hand to eye coordination. Obviously PED's will help improve your performance in football but nothing in comparison to cycling, athletics etc

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PED's in cycling are as much or even more so about recovery than fitness and muscle.

 

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knocky1 said:

They shouldn't have let them in like Mo Farah used to do.

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Or only have your drugs delivered by fed ex to the team doctor who will then "lose" your doping record like Sir Wiggo

 

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Megazone said:

whereas football is a lot more to do with technical ability

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Really? Have you ever seen England play?

 

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Herr Tubthumper said:

Really? Have you ever seen England play?

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Yes I have and you'd be surprised by the technical ability required to take a free kick, in a world cup, 1-0 nil down with 2 mins remaining and hitting it straight into the 2nd tier behind the goal.

 

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I must admit I do love the naivety that surrounds PED's and football.

Not only is "yeah I needed a couple of injections to get through the game" a completely normal thing to say.

But the assumption that 2 third tier sports can 'invent' a cocktail that can make compete faster, stronger, harder and LONGER than your competition and the one sport with generational wealth attached isn't interested.

 

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I can't see anything in the media about this, I would have thought it would have been big news.

Last year Fifa was investigating the alleged Russian state doping of footballers but then suddenly sacked their chief medical officer without explanation.

West Ham's £30k fine this year for breaching the FA anti-doping regulations shows how seriously it is being taken.