Shock horror drugs scandal

[mikkh]

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sheff_utd/8137680.stm

Are they kidding or what?

A goalkeeper faces a ban for failing a drugs test, where the banned substance was probably ingested by taking a cold remedy!

.... and how exactly do you 'enhance' a goalkeepers performance? Make his hands ten times bigger?

Sensationalist journalism at it's worst

[ken]

He might have been taking kangaroo hormones.

[donski1]

Well isn't life a bugger?
Prone to painful sinus congestion, I use ephedrine based medication for the sheer relief of it. I knew I'd be banned from competing in the Olympics for doing so, but at 51 the contest of pain relief vs gold medal never really gets considered.
Now I find I'm not allowed to play soccer either? (I never could play, to tell the truth.)
These rulemakers are turning me into a couch-potato.

Let's have a slurp of Covonia cough medicine ~ 7% by volume of alcohol

[ken]

I have been banned from heavy weight boxing. They say its because of the medication I'm on, but I think I'm being victimised because of my weight problem.