Odd to see references to drugs and football in the press today. Only forty years after Beckenbauer talked about blood doping in his biography, long before it was illegal.
He talked about it in a "look what we were prepared to do to win" way. Nobody had heard of it before. The general line today is that Armstrong and Ferrari, his doctor, were the pioneers. But of course that was decades later.
Meanwhile, there has been no further investigation into Ferarri's "two big clients" in Spain. Cos it wasn't illegal there and there was no compulsion to hand the data over to the local WADA affiliate.
One might almost come to think that where there's muck there's brass.
