By Chris Wright
Just a quickie to start the day, with the news that Kolo Toure will miss the start of next season after being handed a six-month ban for testing positive during a post-Manchester derby drug’s test back in February – later admitting that he took his wife’s diet pills in order to hit a weight-loss target set by the club.
Silly bugger.
The FA ban will be back-dated to March 2nd, which is the day that Man City provisionally suspended Toure, and will be lifted again on September 2nd – though the Ivorian will still have to be spot-tested at regular intervals for a further two years.
The ruling means that Toure will not be allowed to participate in any football match or other football-related activities (other than anti-doping education or rehabilitation programmes) until his ban expires.