Drugs in football - 100% libel free

[dave.woodhall]

Let's start this one again, and this time without the stories from mates of mates about footballers with expensive lawyers. You know you can do it.

[lovejoy]

C4 are reporting that the player is Garry O'Connor whilst at Blues- if he is the "top player" then I'm disappointed. The programme also showed Eck talking about him being off due to having an operation. To me this reflected badly on Eck. It could be argued he was a bare faced liar.

[hipkiss92]

Can we name everyone on the Dispatches programme?

[Phil from the upper holte]

What happened to the other thread? To be fair if blues told mcleish to lie what can he do?

[The Man With A Stick]

It's been pubic knowledge about O'Connor for months?  He was arrested wasn't he?

You only had to watch the useless bugger play to work out he was hepped up on goofballs.

[Phil from the upper holte]

These people ain't top players what a let down

[lovejoy]

That Player A is always in trouble, nearly as badly as Mr X.

[TheSandman]

It's been pubic knowledge about O'Connor for months?  He was arrested wasn't he?

Twice.

[Holtenderinthesky]

What is the point in an investigation designed to expose the cheats in our game when it refers to the cheaters as "player A"?  An absolute waste of an hour of the life of everyone who watched that programme imo.  The players get away with it once again it seems.  When will we have a programme that names and shames these players?

[Dante Lavelli]

C4 are reporting that the player is Garry O'Connor whilst at Blues- if he is the "top player" then I'm disappointed. The programme also showed Eck talking about him being off due to having an operation. To me this reflected badly on Eck. It could be argued he was a bare faced liar.

It's also possible that the club used the imposed drug ban to have the described operation. 

Either way, who really cares.  I'm surprised that all these interviewed fans think that the players should be named and shamed.  My personal view is that these "secret" bans are a pretty effective way of punishing the player whilst allowing him the opportunity to kick any addictions.  I also think that this way does not glamorise drugs in anyway whereas I fear that releasing names and the follow up interview with shamed premier league player would just raise cocaine's profile even further.

[Holte L2]

It was public knowledge about O'Conner. I hope he kept the receipt for whatever he brought.

[charlie]

Much hype, little of real groundbreaking news, much ado.....................

[Salsa Party Animal]

so it is not worth watching then.

[pauliewalnuts]

Total waste of time. Zero revelations of interest.

[bertlambshank]

Dispatches is a very poor man's Panarama.