Interesting tweet from bambo

What the hell are the FA (or whoever is supposed to make these decisions) playing at? What's taking so long? There's something strange about it all, and this situation must be awful for Bambo.

 

Disgusting that it's taken so long.

 

Or great if he took drugs as he's still getting paid.

 

In fairness is could ruin his career taking a year out at this age, if he is innocent that seriously stinks and even if he isn’t they should at least make a decision

 

Its absolute b.ollocks isn’t it. How long can it possibly take! He either isn’t , in which case he should have been available, or he was and there’s a reason, which is either acceptable to the powers that be or not! Either way it’s a ridiculous time frame!

 

Seems ridiculous its has gone on this long either way. Although we have next.to no information about the process so it's hard to pass any kind of judgement on it.

 

Good example of the have and have nots for me. Imagine someone from the likes of Liverpool taking this long.........

 

Be interesting to know what - if anything- the club are doing to press the authorities - US owned businesses are generally pushy.

 

That's a good question actually. How long do they usually take?

 

Honestly don’t know the answer to that, worryingly the rules say a timely basis but also has a clause that says if the player is suspended for the period of the penalty (up to 4 years), punishment would result in a fine.
Edit: Rio was charged for missing a test on September 23rd and by December 19th had the outcome of the tribunal. Granted it might have been easier though as it was just a missed one, but his initial hearing was on 14th October & was postponed waiting for more info.

 

TBH Although I am no lawyer, I am surprised that there is no recourse to be had via the courts.

Depriving someone of the opportunity to carry out their daily work activities with an enforced extended 'time-out', particularly in the area of professional team sports, or at the very least, inhibiting or damaging their prospects of future career advancement or even employment is unreasonable and a good legal team could probably quantify that potential loss in monetary terms e.g earnings from transfer fee and wage increase, also, taking into account additional loss of income from potential earnings from product endorsements, promotional engagements etc. due to the impact on his reputation.

Obviously, the latter would be significantly higher if this was a high profile Premier League player or celebrity, but the principal exists in a legal argument. The threat of a civil suit and the adverse publicity generated could possibly focus a few minds ! This is doubly true if it transpires there is no case to answer. A year in most careers is far less significant than a year for someone in a career that has a relatively short lifespan.

In these situations, IMO there should be a time limit to adjudicate and if that time limit is exceeded then there should be no case to answer. Hanging any sort of charge on someone with no resolution for such a long period is unjust and there is no justification for it, other than sheer incompetence from the authorities involved.
The FA and EFL show over and over again show inconsistency between the big clubs and the rest, and whether or not the delay in this instance is down to the FA, UKAD or a combination of the two, it is a complete and utter shambles and unfair on the player and club concerned.

 

Not sure I agree on the no case to answer as that could hang over the player for the rest of his career. But I do think there should be clear timeframes set out for the process even if it is purely for the credibility of the Anti drug campaign.
As an example unless sports are rife with drug problems how complicated can it be to have an initial hearing within 4 weeks

 

You have to ask, what are the PFA doing about this? They are the Player's union.

 

Even if he's guilty (and we don't know either way) he's effectively served a fair chunk of any suspension already. Unless of course the FA operate by a different set of rules as the English Courts!

 

It doesn't matter how long it's taking. We have let it be known it's our choice we aren't playing him. We played Wilkes with a court case hanging over him so I don't see why Diaby can't play tomorrow (not that I would play him).

 

I think we were obligated to suspend him. Pretty sure he couldn't have played whilst under investigation.

 

Once again the football authorities are paying lip service to a big issue and are demonstrating themselves as the shysters they actually are.
Rightly there has been a fairly significant campaign about mental issues and awareness over the past couple of seasons yet they will happily string a young man along with what should be a straightforward situation.
Disgrace

 

It seems it should be straight forward.

Player fails test.

FA / EFL or whoever gives player a week to explain reasons and sets a meeting within the next month.

Player turns up at meeting explains it was x y or z that caused him to fail. FA or whoever hears evidence and decides punishment be it on the day or within the next week.

 

Presumably it's a case of results having to be reanalised at the labs again? Who knows but it sounds from the tweet as though Bambo is maintaining his innocence . Still a mystery as to the timescale though.