Rio Ferdinand's 8 Month Ban

V_MANV_MAN V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
edited December 2003 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Is it harsh or not?</div> Before you post plz NO flames from brain dead gunners or united fans blinded from the facts by loyalties to their clubs. I'm looking at this from an England perspective.

Personaly I think it's very steep because Rio DIDN'T take any banned substances he just missed the random test, however he took the test the following day no banned substance on the plannet can be flushed out your system in 24 hours.

Missing a test should be a serious offence in all honesty but getting banned for 8 months and fined £50,000 is out of order consideriong players like Edgar Davids and Jap Stamm who were both tested positive for banned substances only recieved 5 month bans.

Other players in the Premiership have missed random tests and were only fined £2,000 why then has Rio been so harshly done by? You can't have one punishment for one player and other punishments for another.

The ban will mean England will be missing one of it's most talanted center backs for Euro 2004 <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    yeah.. its harsh.. but tbh.. he is the ****.. he is being made an example of... i mean.. how many players are gonna miss it now ?

    i am a Gunner thru and thru.. but yeah.. its unfortunate.. but yeah it will work.. none of the other players will forget in a hurry.. so from that perspective they did things right..
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  • V_MANV_MAN V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
    Can't help but wonder tho if he would have been sentenced to harshly if there was no media circus surrounding his case or if sepp blatter hadn't started running his mouth, I just hope and appeal will prove fruitful enough to get him back for EURO 2004 cos I think this will come back to haunt us in the tournament.
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    I think he's being made an example of.
    As a warning to other players who "accidently"
    miss their "random" tests.

    No-one should be allowed to get away with this kind
    of thing for any reason other than emergencies.
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  • Owen1Owen1 Join Date: 2003-04-13 Member: 15457Members
    rio is a bit of a **** anyway... he should just appeal
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  • Vulgar_MenaceVulgar_Menace Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22118Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--|Owen|+Dec 21 2003, 02:09 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (|Owen| @ Dec 21 2003, 02:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> rio is a bit of a **** anyway <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Agreed. He deserves every month of that ban.
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  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    Who's Rio?
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  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Mullet+Dec 21 2003, 10:37 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mullet @ Dec 21 2003, 10:37 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Who's Rio? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    footy player.

    yeah thats true though.. if there was no media interest he wouldve just got a bumming from sven... but due to the media.. he gets it alot worse... :s
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  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    what are all you brits talking about?

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    damn American hippies like myself are never in the loop <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • PowerslavEPowerslavE Join Date: 2003-10-25 Member: 21962Members
    Must be that soccer thing.
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  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--That Annoying Kid+Dec 22 2003, 01:11 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (That Annoying Kid @ Dec 22 2003, 01:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> what are all you brits talking about?

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    damn American hippies like myself are never in the loop <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    in short...

    one player from manchester utd. and a player for england.. missed a drug test... he forgot or w/e... but yeah he took it next day.. and was clean. yet he has recieved i think an 8 month ban and been fined around 50 g's

    basically he is being used as an example.. but it is very unfair and it will hurt us more in euro 2004. cos he is leet tbh.
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