You want stuff on football?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2388078/Arsenal-players-used-EPO-says-Wenger.html
- Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger is convinced teams he bought players from were doping them
http://www.thetruefootball.com/2009/07/are-footballers-above-doping-suspicion.html
- a very interesting blog post about football's reaction to Operación Puerto
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7721593.stm
- PFA (players' association) resists attempts to bring testing in football in line with WADA code
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/mar/15/drugs-in-football-david-james
- England goalkeeper David James rambles about how football has no doping problem as the number of positive tests is so low but admits only being tested once or twice a season, and that Arsène Wenger has complained that some of his players have been playing for five years without being tested once
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article7069717.ece
- Times article including the following doozies of fun facts about how clean soccer is:
> 2 British league teams have been fined for repeat offences in failing to inform testers of players' whereabouts
> players are not allowed to miss three tests in an 18-month period, but are allowed to miss tests. So if you're tested 1 or 2 times a season as David James said in the other article, you could easily cover a long time. In fact, if you're like the Arsenal players who weren't tested in 5 years, then you could conceivably be tested three times in ten years, not turn up to any of them, and not be sanctioned!
> From Jan.2008 to Aug.2009, 96 British league footballers failed to show up to a test. An additional 2 footballers failed to turn up to two tests.
> There are 92 league teams in England and Wales. 35 of these are on at least one strike for failing to provide whereabouts info, of which 13 have two strikes.
> The heaviest suspension ever provided for a doping violation in the UK football community was Rio Ferdinand, who was banned 8 months for skipping a drugs test by running away.
Doping is institutionalised in soccer. If anything, it's worse than in cycling, since the biggest stars are known dopers, don't serve suspensions, and nobody even cares.