- 41. Argentina – Politics overlapping with football
- (Letter from...)
- ... recently hired Diego Maradona, now boasting he is clean from drugs, to run the club’s football department. But not everything has run smoothly for Macri. Boca lost the Libertadores final last year and ...
- Created on 14 October 2005
- 42. Best boot forward
- (Clubs)
- ... A measure of Rushden’s futility – in a season when the club was up for sale the entire time without attracting a bid, sacked a manager, and lost a first-choice goalkeeper to a failed drugs test – is that ...
- Created on 14 October 2005
- 43. Flick to kick
- (Films)
- ... Moments earlier he was being expelled from Yale over some vague business to do with his preppy room-mate selling drugs. Shannon, you feel, might have a point. Green Street is a film about English football ...
- Created on 14 September 2005
- 44. June 2005
- (Diary)
- ... goalkeeper Olli Gotskalksson has been banned after refusing to take a drugs test in January – he has since disappeared; the FA have also suspended an unnamed player for testing positive for cocaine. “I’m ...
- Created on 14 August 2005
- 45. Germany – Crisis in the East
- (Letter from...)
- ... rued large debts without the German Football Association (DFB) revoking their playing licence. By contrast, Rot-Weiss Erfurt had three points deducted when striker Senad Tiganj failed a drugs test after sh ...
- Created on 14 July 2005
- 46. Rio grand
- (Players)
- ... such as Morris and Peter Kenyon to take advantage of his egomania and get what they want from him. He comes across as arrogant and dumb – his explanation concerning the missed drugs test still beggars ...
- Created on 14 June 2005
- 47. Selling yourself on TV
- (South America)
- ... year was sacked by Aucas in Ecuador for failing a drugs test. It was the second time in two years that Higuita had tested positive for cocaine. He was also jailed for six months in June 1993 for acting ...
- Created on 14 May 2005
- 48. Letters, WSC 218
- (Readers' letters)
- Dear WSC Gabriele Marcotti is right (Letters WSC 217) when he points out that none of the performance-enhancing drugs at the centre of the Juventus doping court case were actually illegal – apart from ...
- Created on 14 April 2005
- 49. Letters, WSC 217
- (Readers' letters)
- ... but Matt Barker’s piece in WSC 215 is a little bit skewed. Nowhere does he mention that the 281 drugs found on Juve’s premises were all legal. Every single one of them. Just as creatine is legal and the ...
- Created on 14 March 2005
- 50. Negative results
- (Europe)
- ... as to warrant a full inquiry overseen by Raffaele Guariniello, a Turin lawyer. Now, six years later, club doctor Riccardo Agricola has been found guilty of supplying performance-enhancing drugs, namely ...
- Created on 14 January 2005
