SPECIAL REPORT: FIFTEEN top-flight stars fail drug tests but not ONE is banned, as 88 footballers in Britain return positive samples

SPECIAL REPORT: FIFTEEN top-flight stars fail drug tests but not ONE is banned, as 88 footballers in Britain return positive samples – but details of cases are withheld

Daily Mail | April 16, 2022

At least 15 Premier League footballers failed drugs tests between 2015 and 2020, The Mail on Sunday can reveal, and none of them was given any kind of ban.

Twelve of those tested positive for banned performance-enhancing substances, with one still being investigated five months after the initial test and no sanction having been issued.

In total 88 footballers from England, Wales and Scotland failed doping tests, returning 'adverse analytical findings', when drug-tested between 2013 to 2020.

At least 15 Premier League footballers failed drugs tests 2015-20, Mail on Sunday can reveal

The dozen cases of performance-enhancing drugs included three findings of triamcinolone, the corticosteroid Sir Bradley Wiggins used to treat hay fever before his Tour de France victory

The revelations can only now be published after The Mail on Sunday made a series of Freedom of Information requests which took three times longer than they should have to be processed by the UK Anti-Doping agency (UKAD).