Rushden tomorrow

[Shrimper in India]

The Echo says Rushden keeper Billy Turley is out as he has been suspended by the club as they investigate a disciplinary matter.

Not sure what that's all about but would have loved us to have sticked several goals past the aforementioned fat custodian.

Does anyone remember the stick he gave us after Graeme Jones skied that penalty at Nene Park?

Stewart Robson will also be returning after his forgetable spell as coach with us.

 

[Jai]

Sure it's just not his back still hurting after picking the ball out of his net at Nene Park in September?

Oh yes I remember the Jones penalty moment very well, and Turley certainly came in for some stick from me when we thrashed them earlier in the season!

 

[McScriven]

Turley has allegedly been suspended because of drugs

 

[Suffolk Blue]

You must have been avoiding the news over Christmas.  Looks like Billy has been a bad boy with regards to his recreational habits.  Apparently he had an early White Christmas.

It has also emerged (I certainly hadn't heard of it anyway) that he had previously tested positive for Nandrolone but had managed to convince the FA that it wasn't deliberate so they let him off (which didn't go down at all well with the other authorities).

I don't think we'll see  Billy Turley play again as he's going to get in a lot of trouble over this and will probably get a life, or very, very long ban.

 

[southend4ever]

no need for cheats in the game...

 

[Suffolk Blue]

To be fair I think this time it is alledged to be recreational rather than performance enhancing.

Got to say though how stupid must you be to indulge when you know you are going to be tested.  Apparently frequent testing was part of the conditions on which his previous incident was resolved.

 

[gazzacat42]

He is getting his just desserts.
Turley is a big time charlie.

 

[Alexis_SUFC]

Did anyone see the goals from Rushden V Orient, the orient striker had a shot that the rushden keeper thought was going over so he decided to hang on the crossbar and it dipped in. He must have felt like such a ********.

Alexis

 

[Shrimpergonzo]

This was in The Guardian

Quote[/b] ]Rushden keeper faces drug ban

Duncan Mackay
Friday December 24, 2004
The Guardian

Billy Turley, the first British footballer to test positive for an anabolic steroid, was at the centre of new allegations last night after his club Rushden and Diamonds suspended him.
The goalkeeper has been ordered to stay away from the Northamptonshire club after they launched an investigation into claims he has tested positive for a banned recreational drug.

If he is found guilty, then Turley could become the first player in Britain to be banned from the sport for life for a doping offence.

That is the sentence the Football Association warned him he would face if he tested positive again after they allowed him to escape a suspension following a failed test for nandrolone in 2002.

Turley, 31, has a reputation for being the best keeper in League Two and has been Rushden's outstanding player of what has been a difficult season, appearing in every match.

"The only thing I can say at this time is that Billy has been suspended until further notice pending a disciplinary investigation," said the Rushden manager Ernie Tippett last night.

Following his earlier failed test, Turley would have been a regular target for UK Sport's team of drug testers. He was the mystery player who the FA allowed to escape with a rap over the knuckles despite the fact he had tested positive for nandrolone. It was believed Turley had ingested the drug unwittingly in a health supplement.

Turley claimed successfully to an FA disciplinary hearing that prescribed drugs could have triggered the result at the time and a suspension would cause him serious distress due to a personal problem.

The FA was criticised heavily by Dick Pound, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, who said that his explanation was not adequate and the governing body was wrong to accept it.

The fact a player had even tested positive only became public because it appeared in the quarterly doping report published by UK Sport, who had conducted the test on behalf of the FA.

Far better-known and wealthier competitors in other sports or from other countries who have tested positive for nandrolone have been far less fortunate than Turley.

The Dutch footballer Jaap Stam saw a multi-million-pound transfer to Lazio from Manchester United turn into a nightmare as a result of a nandrolone positive.

The 1992 Olympic 100 metres champion Linford Christie had his reputation ruined by having to serve a two-year ban after testing positive for the drug.

Europe's leading 400m runner Mark Richardson missed the 2000 Olympics and the chance of a medal over his protracted case. He received a ban but had it lifted earlier after he agreed to lecture on the dangers of supplements.

The FA and UK Sport last night refused to comment.

 

[The General]

Quote[/b] (Alexis_SUFC @ Dec. 31 2004,14:13)]Did anyone see the goals from Rushden V Orient, the orient striker had a shot that the rushden keeper thought was going over so he decided to hang on the crossbar and it dipped in. He must have felt like such a ********.

Alexis

He's bound to play superb tomorrow then ...

 

[Guest]

Quote[/b] (gazzacat42 @ Dec. 31 2004,13:25)]He is getting his just desserts.
Turley is a big time charlie.

Good choice of words by the sound of it.

 

[Guest]

Quote[/b] (McScriven @ Dec. 31 2004,12:25)]Turley has allegedly been suspended because of drugs

It's true. I didn't share it with the squad when I bought a big bag of snifter and some pills. It's not like I go round their houses every time they're having a few tokes is it?

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

That's a shame, I enjoyed seeing the lads bang 4 past him in September

Oh well, hopefully it'll mean they have an even worse keeper in goal tomorrow. His name's Worgan, never heard of him though.