Chelsea Fined

For breaching dopeing regulations.

£40,000

I dont know anything else about it

That'll teach them.

hahaha

It was for those private tests they carried out on players at their training grounds.

Well thats 8x the fine the Spanish FA received for racially abusing our players

hit them in the pocket... right where it hurts

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Target Man wrote:

COTR wrote:hit them in the pocket... right where it hurts

Chelsea hits out at FA over drugs test rap
Thursday, Aug 31, 2006

Chelsea Football Club has issued the following statement after the club was found guilty of breaching Football Association rules for conducting private drug testing in relation to the Adrian Mutu case.

The statement says:

Chelsea Football Club is totally committed to the fight against drugs in football.

While we accept there was a technical breach of the doping regulations in this case, we find it extraordinary that we have been found guilty of trying to undermine the drug testing system.

The Football Association would be better served using its resources to increasing the effectiveness of its random testing and applying the toughest penalties available in all drug related cases, rather than punishing those who act genuinely in the fight against drugs.

The FA appears to be more interested in procedure than substance, wasting a huge amount of time and money on lawyers in a case that has taken two years to resolve. During this time hundreds of hours have been spent prosecuting a technicality when common sense should have been applied.

Despite our efforts to find a sensible and speedy resolution, the issue became mired in a bureaucracy that makes a mockery of the claims that the organisation is modernising itself.

Chelsea FC would never contravene any rules in order to cover-up drugs in sport. These rules are in place to punish those who seek to protect drug takers.

Our stance in the Adrian Mutu case proves that our sole intention in conducting a private test was to protect football from a drug taker.

Firstly, we had suspicions that this player was a regular user of a Class A drug and the FA random drug test procedures had failed to confirm this.

Secondly, the player was not privately tested for performance enhancing drugs, only for recreational drugs.

In the circumstances, the test on July 12, 2004 proved negative and an FA approved test was requested later that summer which was positive.

The player's contract was then terminated and during the hearing into this failed test he also admitted to taking cocaine on at least seven occasions, vindicating our actions.

Chelsea's position on drugs is very clear. We adopt a zero tolerance policy towards anybody who fails a drug test and then rejects the chance of help and rehabilitation when offered by the club.

The FA statement said:

At an Independent Disciplinary Commission hearing today, Chelsea FC were fined £40,000 and issued with a warning after a charge of breaching FA Rule E25 was found proved.

Chelsea were charged in relation to the independent private drug testing the club conducted on some of its players on 12 July 2004. The Commission found that, in conducting such tests, the club had breached The FA's Doping Control Regulations.

Chelsea had denied the charge and requested a personal hearing.

Note: FA Rule E25 states that "A Participant shall comply with the provisions of any doping control regulations as shall be in force from time to time as determined by the Council." The definition of Participants under The FA's Rules includes clubs.

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It's a ridiculous rule, but we should have known better than to give the FA any chance to fine us.

Tweedledum wrote:Well thats 8x the fine the Spanish FA received for racially abusing our players

And less than 1% of the money Sepp Blatter spent in lobbying to get himself elected President of FIFA...


Love Football. Hate the Footballing Authorities.

saintgoingmarching wrote:

Tweedledum wrote:Well thats 8x the fine the Spanish FA received for racially abusing our players

And less than 1% of the money Sepp Blatter spent in lobbying to get himself elected President of FIFA...


Love Football. Hate the Footballing Authorities.

At least it isn't the cheating foreigners of Arsenal though...

IT's stupid really, the tests caught a player on drugs, if anything they should be encouraged.

robert wrote:IT's stupid really, the tests caught a player on drugs, if anything they should be encouraged.

If they catch someone they like they could hush it up and tell him to stop intime for a real test.

I actualy think it is a little silly though. But they could abuse it.

SteveOoO wrote:

robert wrote:IT's stupid really, the tests caught a player on drugs, if anything they should be encouraged.

If they catch someone they like they could hush it up and tell him to stop intime for a real test.

I actualy think it is a little silly though. But they could abuse it.

we;re already the most hated club in the world, we dont need anything else to add to it