Can't agree Tash - If I got arrested for smoking cannabis or taking Cocaine then I'd lose my job full stop. Gross Misconduct as I am CRB's for work. I'd also be very unlikely to EVER get another job in the public sector Is Cocaine not performance enhancing as it heightens your pain threshold?
Tash, that's fairly narrow minded mate. Chances are Cocaine and/or Dope would be detrimental to performance levels, in probably all work places. If you went into training one day after polishing off a bag of weed, mistimed a tackle because your senses were impaired, and ended up putting a team mate on the side lines through injury then I say sacking them is a perfectly acceptable precaution to take with these people.
How can Tash afford 'champagne drugs' on the dole? He crushes up 2 alka seltzers and blows his mind away with a calming effect on his stomach.
Zero tolerance from me. If others see that there's not major punishment for taking any form of drug, whether recreational or performance enhancing, they may think it's acceptable, then where does that leave the sport?
Yes, but lets face it, being a footballer isn't just another job like yours or mine. If you work for a national service or with the public etc, then I understand completely. But as a footballer you are employed by your football club. Is it really worth sacking a good prospect because he did coke at a party one day? Private organisations and football clubs can make their own standards and IMO a suspension and a fine would have sufficed, not sacking the lad. All you'd have had to do is discipline him and give him a warning. You do not need to sack an employee to show that your club is against drug use.
I never thought of it that way, but my idea was that cheating and using performance enhancing drugs should be an immediate ban. But all other drugs would do is harm your performance. If they're not improving your performance then it disadvantages no one but yourself and your team, instead of giving you an unfair advantage over other teams. However, you made a good point about being high on coke, mistiming a tackle in training and hurting someone. That's a good point.
For 15 years of your life, you will be well paid and people will (mainly) applaud you. Just be an athlete like most of those young Brits at the Olympics last year and leave drink and drugs alone. Not too much to expect?
Agreed, but he's a child still. I think he could be given a smack around the head and told off, he's not even a man yet. If he was a man in the prime of his career then I'd understand.
He is young enough to rehabilitate himself if he wants to. I must say that the club are supporting and councelling Lewis and the ball is in his court. What other employer would pay you to sit on your arse for two years?
Got to agree with the above like, since booze has gone up in price people are sniffing a hell of a lot more. We catch loads every week in our night club. But as far as I know Cocaine is a WADA banned substance so he should not be doing it. I have to agree with the club on this one. While I agree with MONs Mush about general jobs, some jobs are different. For example I regularly get drunk at work when I am DJ'ing, if a lorry driver did that it would be very dangerous. I all depends on the job. These footballers are role models, think about all the rock stars that have died because they have copied their idols lifestyles. Besides that I am fairly sure Coke is on the WADA banned substance list so he should be banned from competitive sport for life in my book. Zero tolerance to drugs cheats.
On the way back from the last derby, I saw a group of blokes huddled around together and sniffing in the ground walking back to the metro. There were coppers about 20 meters away.
