.....the MAIN reason that we're shite and City/Liverpool are better than us is that our doping isn't as good as theirs.
Think the same myself. He has added quality in depth and rotated quite a bit, but I think a massive part of it is in their game management, they are very rarely fighting to the very end of a game trying to get a result over the line or get a late winner.
We need a head of doping along with a Pfizer sponsorship as our official doping partnerI've heard it all now
As long as we can all sleep soundly basking in the glow of this absolute and irrefutable knowledge.
It wasn't just footballers it was more or less the whole uprising in Spanish sports, tennis, basketball, track and field ect so it was actually a big deal.
Love how many comments I'm reading like this, presented as pure fact.
United should be seeking a refund from their dealer then.
Yea this is my problem with what you said, and its how misinformation so easily happens. It doesn't say he RAN 13.7km, he just moved that much. Carrick used to top our distance travelled statistic often, he didn't run much.
There were genuine suspicions about this Liverpool side long before these rumours surfaced. The inhuman ability to prevent injury or fatigue from ever becoming a factor is as impressive as it gets. Impressive and slightly odd? Ditto the City squad but not quite to the same extent.
You’re taking it too literally. Nobody thinks he ran 13.7km. Over 90 mins that would work out at a very underwhelming 6mph.
The fuentes stuff and the fact that pep was caught doping in Italy is just totally ignored.
How do you know no one things its running after you wrote "ran"?
I can't imagine it's gotten any better. Dopers just get cleverer and more sophisticated and half of what's going on probably hasn't been made illegal yet. Footballers playing like spring chickens into their late 30s raises massive alarm bells for me, regardless of any of the talk of advances in Sports Science.
In fairness the City evidence is out there. I think peds will eventually come to light for everybody but as a side note, I think eventually all sports will just legalize them as the testing is always playing catch up. I don't think there are many professional athletes in any discipline who aren't abusing something. Half the amateur boxing club I regularly visit are and the u14's are already on supplements (a different debate I know).
They will never legalize PED's mate, not until they create one that doesn't come with severe side-effects. Anabolic steroids for example have known risks such infertility, breast growth, prostate cancer, liver cancer, among numerous other nasties. It's even worse for women.
Ours is fake. A placebo.
There’s a basic level of understanding assumed for these discussions.
Not arsed with this sort of pedantry. It was a season high stat and I remember seeing it was out of the ordinary at the time. I’m just giving stats to the eye test. The eye test was that Bernardo was fecking everywhere that game and barely made a technical mistake, playing at a far higher tempo than Carrick ever did.
Yeah the past 11 pages are all based on some crappy source and people saying things like "I can just sense they are on drugs, I'm positive about it"
Nailed it
I hope so but people just don't tend to care and I dunno if its the same for you (I believe you work or worked in the fitness industry or it was someone I had some great arguments with on here) but it just seems to be growing as far as I can see.
Just like in the UFC you used to be able to claim your testosterone levels were too low, get TRT (testosterone replacement therapy), and then dominate all fighters because you had literal legal steroids. There's a reason TRTitor was a nickname for Victor Belfort in the Mma community.
I think the strongest excuse is never diagnosed. Most players and I imagine the same at Liverpool I bet have exercise induced asthma (which is a pretty high percentage in society) but particularly in elite athletes. I think its something like 25% though don't quote me. Liverpools numbers (if true) seems exceptionally high but basically if 1 in 4 of us pushes ourselves hard enough we have it too.
We're the control group
It's quite blatant, yeah, but I still think an eight month ban was very harsh.Rio didn't even hide it
I can only go by leaked documents and a doctor that has evidence of performance enhancing drugs used by multiple clubs including Leicester.
“Medical exemption” probably provides anonymity, when in reality the ease at which club doctors can give the exemptions is a joke. They just sign a piece of paper and no questions are asked.
