Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has today (November 14th) cast doubt over new proposals to bring drug testing in football in line with other sports.
Under the plans, players would be subject to the "whereabouts ruling", meaning they must make testers aware of their location for an hour every day.
However, Ferguson has branded the process a "nuisance" and claimed that if implemented, the system would represent a logistical nightmare.
He said: "It will cost the Football Association a fortune and the implementation will be very difficult.
"There are some occasions where you look at your team and think 'maybe I will give them this day off'. That player might be sitting in the house and decide to go shopping. They might even forget."
Ferguson knows all about players forgetting to comply with drug testing regulations after United centre-back Rio Ferdinand missed a test in 2003 and was subsequently hit with an eight-month ban.
However, Ferdinand has backed the campaign, saying that "it sounds fair".
The England international was also fined £50,000 after he claimed that he forgot about the test as he was moving house, although he was pictured shopping in Manchester on the same day.
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