Whatever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty'? I've seen absolutely no evidence here or anywhere else to say this is the case, so I'm going to put it down to hard work, skill and hefty dose of luck.
Don't you find it unusual that many other major sports (tennis, cycling, athletics, baseball) have had high profile PED scandals, and that football doesn't? Why do you think that is? Is the most popular sport in the world, and one of the most lucrative, magically free of doping?
If you read the reddit thread I posted above, there's links where footballers of previous eras admitted to being given "vitamins" or whatever. Do we simply choose to believe that this simply doesn't happen anymore? The answer is obvious to me, the reality is that no one likes to face this question. I think there's a MASSIVE scandal on the horizon, on the scale of the Sepp Blatter/Qatar World Cup abuses or bigger.
That's not to say there isn't drug taking going on; but to imply that's the reason for Leicester's success this season is indeed controversial, and as far as I can see, without merit.
Chelsea have had a startling decline from champions last year to mid table fodder, this year. Does that mean they've stopped doping?
> to imply that's the reason for Leicester's success this season is indeed controversial, and as far as I can see, without merit.
There's indeed no evidence, but you have to ask yourself: do I want to believe that Vardy burst onto the scene at 29, or is there the slight possibility that something else is going on?
Wenger has said in the past: "sport was “full of legends who are in fact cheats” as he called on Uefa to improve its drug testing programme. "Honestly, I don’t think we do enough [on doping tests],” he said. “It is very difficult for me to believe that you have 740 players at the World Cup and you come out with zero problems. Mathematically, that happens every time."[1]
It's publicly known that Barcelona paid for Messi's treatment of a growth hormone disorder with human growth hormone[2]. Can you honestly say you would be surprised if they also use HGH to help their players recovery from injury? They were implicated in the Operation Puerto case, but there was deliberately no further investigation in that case[3].
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/10/arsene-wenge...
[2] http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1492546-lionel-messi-and-...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Puerto_doping_c...
There's tons of potential evidence to start looking at if the football world decides so.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Puerto_doping_c...