Let's get this right:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/pakistan/6149596.stm

A footballer gets tested positive for Nadrolone.
He has to explain how the substance got in his body, without reasonable doubt.
His case is studied by the English FA - in line with FIFA guidelines.
If he cannot prove how it happened - he's banned, and rightly so.

In cricket - two players, for the same team, who have been struggling with injury in the lead up to a big tournament - are tested positive for nandrolone.
The ICC bans them for a year & two years.
Their own association, not the ICC, then hear their appeal - where their lawyer challenges the ICC to prove how the substance got in their bodies, not the other way round.
The bans are overturned.

In football - the player is responsible for what goes into their bodies.
In cricket - you just claim that you inadvertantly took a supplement & you get off with it.

Pathetic.

 

But football is ****

So, where's the problem?

 

Also can you change your signature to reflect how much 'shittier' cricket is than football ?</p>

Just a thought, ho hum !!!</p>

Dave</p>

 

The decision stinks. I read the reasons the panel gave and just

thought it a complete whitewash. They don't have resonsibility for what they take? How come everybody else does?

 

Cricket is significantly more **** than football.

Football is indeed ****.
Cricket is a big fat pile of festering demon cack.

Grown men playing bat & ball.
It should be banned.

Just like the drug cheats who've just been let off.

 

I think that just about fits the bill !!! n/t

 

I agree

both are ****, cricket is shitter.

 

The only sport worth playing, or watching:

Indoor Nipsy.

At the PAM Arena.

 

What are the rules of that then?

Go on, explain, for the kids.

 

it doesn't really matter though because cricket isn't a sport

i think this is the reasoning behind their decision.

hitting a ball with a wooden stick is based on pure luck and there's no amount of ecstasy, poof, cake or jemby jembies that will make you hit it for "six".

cross cricket with kabadee and then it might be deemed as a proper sport where people would take notice to drug taking batsmen.

 

You may have a point.

Maybe it would be better to force the players to take drugs before the game?
That would be much more entertaining than spending 5 days watching people rub a ball on their cocks before deciding it's a draw & having cucumber sandwiches.

Bowlers should be given big spliffs & batsmen crack cocaine.
Heroin for the umpires & LSD for wicket keepers.

I might just be onto something here.

 

I think....

... Phil Tuffnell may have been way ahead of you in respect of the bowlers !!!

 

Too complicated to explain in one post ...

... but it involves two balls, a stick & a goal.

It's the biggest participant sport in the world.
Bigger than fishing.

 

Do you regularly particpate in this sport?

If so, who with?

 

Aye.

P = 1 point
M = 3 points
A = 10 points

Be careful not to score an own goal.

I don't play often enough.
I do enjoy the practice though.

 

Sounds like fun

I may have to try it one day. Fancy a game?