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Yeah, but you posted that while I was writing. I did see it afterwards.
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I don't think the difference between the cases is so great as to explain a 25 times larger fine and an extra 8 months ban.see my post above, the city player apperently had permission
It will certainly be reduced..many precedents Europe-wide.
If the FA/FIFA want harmonisation of drug testing rules, they better damn well say so before an incident occurs.www.my-piano.blogspotComment
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If I left work without permission I get in a damn site more trouble than if I'd told them I was going to the dentist!Originally posted by Park Avenue
I don't think the difference between the cases is so great as to explain a 25 times larger fine and an extra 8 months ban.
It will certainly be reduced..many precedents Europe-wide.
If the FA/FIFA want harmonisation of drug testing rules, they better damn well say so before an incident occurs.
It may be reduced somewhat, but nothing like the 3 months you'd like, another thing to consider is that any reduction from 8 months to anything still over 5 months is meaningless because he'll still miss Portugal but still be able to play the start of next seasonLast edited by reds4ever; December 21, 2003, 11:00.Comment
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While the appeal is going on, he will still be playing. 3 months will be fine if it starts at the end of May
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**** the FA and their English football team.
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I doubt if ManU and Alex Ferguson care about Ferdinand playing in Euro 2004, in fact they would probably prefer him not to. What they will be concerned about is the amount of money they have invested in him and the effect on their Premiership and european campaigns this season. To them that is probably worth throwing some more money at the lawyers to get the ban reduced or even dropped. A three month ban starting on 1 July would probably be quite acceptable to them.
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Hopefully something like that is what will happen. Screws the FA over but Man Utd won't give a damn, and Ferdinand somewhere in between I guess...www.my-piano.blogspotComment
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This season (and much of last season) he was the one playing well when the rest of the team weren't.Originally posted by reds4ever
I can't get past comparing him with Jamie Redknapp when he was at Liverpool, in that when he (and the team) plays well, he looks great, but on bad days he tends to 'go missing'Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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Thats what i mean't by 'I can't get past'! You know what I mean? (Harry)Originally posted by MikeH
This season (and much of last season) he was the one playing well when the rest of the team weren't.
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Slightly OT but I just found this,
Could be fun I guess especially with a different kind of drug..Attached FilesIs God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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it looks like someone's gone and draw a football pitch on a golf course..."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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Ferdinands ban is correct however the FA have cocked up by a) taking so long and b) not banning people int he past for the same offence.
How do you "forget" to take a drugs test, my God its not as if his life is filled with complications.
A lenghty ban should be automatic unless there are extreme extenuating circumstances. such as your parents dying.Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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No, nothing like moving house at the time or anything..How do you "forget" to take a drugs test, my God its not as if his life is filled with complications.
I'd support the ban if the FA had made clear what would happen if you forget to produce a sample for the test, even if there was no previous precedent. The fact is the precedents before shows the FA wouldn't give a significant ban, and neither did they say that anything had changed.
And for this reason, I believe Rio will escape this savage and undeserved action, one way or other.www.my-piano.blogspotComment
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The City guy returned to the drug testers within the hour, Ferdinand took 44 hours to get tested. Can't clear drugs out of your system in an hour, can in 44 hours. Think that's the main difference.
Bit harsh that he only got 1 month less than Bosnich who did get caught, and 3 months more than Stam, Davids, Couto and De Boer who also got caught. I can see it being reduced after a lengthy appeal procedure to 4 months.Comment
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I'd like to know why it took so long to get the phone records that were supposed to clear Ferdinand and why some of the numbers he rang around that time were smudged or missing altogether?Comment
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"ome of the numbers he rang around that time were smudged or missing altogether"
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