Premier League Drugs: Scoring At Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool And Chelsea
THE Premier League season kicks off this weekend. At last. It’s been almost an entire fortnight since the last season finished.
Reports are that some Manchester United supporters have yet to make it home from the Cup Final, what with delays on the Tube.
But here come the new season to excite, exhilarate and amazzzzze…
But be warned, gentle football fan. As the Express reports: “Exposed: The cocaine culture at the heart of British football.”
A ball has not been kicked and already the whiff of scandal is getting up the nose of the national game.
Sure Tour de France cyclists cheat, forgetting that the blood they supply for testing has to be their own, and athletes run on fuel injections, but it is football that leads the way in scandal.
And here is the tale of drugs. The Express says Class A drugs are “routinely taken during games at ‘family friendly’ stadiums”.
The Express has found traces of white powder in the toilets at football grounds. Traces of drugs have been found at Old Trafford and Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.
The Express says this inquiry is “bound to worry parents”. Indeed, having lashed out for new kits and official boots for junior, the young impressionable football fan will be wanting an official Arsenal cocaine straw and a Theatre of Dreams mirror.
But reading on we get the news that it is not the players who are abusing substances but the fans.
John Williams, director of the University of Leicester’s Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research, says: “Some fans drink to add to the feeling of excitement. But a lot of people use other types of drugs for the same reasons.”
While we can speculate on what drugs would suit which team – Spurs (tin pot), Arsenal (jellies), Bolton (party poppers) and Blackburn (GHB) – the Express highlights the issue.
And makes us wonder how long it will be before the paper unearths a sex scandal among fans and sheds light on a the supporters who take drugs to dull the pain of watching West Ham take on Middlesbrough on a damp Tuesday night.
And paying £40 for the privilege…
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