18 Jun 2025 17:46:28
Apparently, Mudryk has been charged with doping offence by FA.

1.) 18 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 21:06:58
Not surprised, now the lawyers will be involved to negotiate a period of suspension.

What we need is the lawyer who represented Sinner, the Italian tennis player.

2.) 18 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 21:13:38
The only surprise is, it’s taken so long to charge the lad.

Hope the young man can clear his name. I guess my surprise was that the drug is perceived to be a performance enhancing drug rather than what some see as a social drug!

3.) 19 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 08:17:52
Tom

They will try and throw the book at him however of he has a good lawyer, he might just be suspended for 18 months but has already served 6 months of that.

4.) 19 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 08:51:32
Bill, maybe you are correct.

There are lots of things we don’t know. I assume that CFC perform regular drug tests on all the players. Maybe the club can show that just before he left to go on international duty he had tested negative and that might help the lad.

As things stand it’s the player who takes on responsibility for what goes into his body.

I guess that the press will start speculating about the terms of his CFC contract and maybe a so called “drugs clause. ”

There will be some nouse and lots of guessing but it now seems if all parties are going to make no further comment and that’s a wise move and normal.

{Ed001's Note - clubs almost never drug test their players.}

5.) 19 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 09:07:17
Tom. the fact that the drug is performance enhancing is worrying as he is a gym junkie.

6.) 19 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 09:11:06
We move on. Lovely lad and that cameo in his first match against Liverpool had me drooling but so often made the wrong choice, brilliant skillset, pace to burn and an eye for goal but just no football brain. A real shame and I hope he gets the support he needs. With Sancho also departed I'm intrigued as to who will come in? lots being rumoured by the click bait pundits and red top rags but without the late great ED02 we are all clueless as to who it will actually be!

7.) 19 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 09:27:19
Ed, that’s surprising, maybe a cynic would suggest scared what they may find.

{Ed001's Note - maybe.}

8.) 19 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 09:37:07
Jimbo, I personally wouldn’t have a clue about his gym activities.

Seems like a nice humble young lad who on occasion looked to be stuck in the headlights. If that makes sense.

9.) 19 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 09:44:33
Mudryk apparently consumed the drug - he denies of course that this was intentional and he may be telling thr truth even if seems unlikely to many - while on international duty for Ukraine.

Apparently the club have been supporting him - not least it seems with mental health issues - in the six or more months since he was effectively suspended.

If I recall correctly, Paul Pogba in roughlu similar situation had an eighteen month suspension sentence rather than the 4 years maximum. Now if MM has already been suspended for 6 months, perhaps he could effectively only serve a further year if lawyers do a good job.

BUt yes Sinner's layweres did a fantastiuc job for him!

10.) 19 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 22:19:11
have no idea about Mudryk whether he knew what he put in his system or not. However, we should not be celebrating the fact that people who can afford to pay expensive lawyers can avoid the consequences of their actions. A classic example of that is drink driving. Most normal people put their hands up despite the consequences for their livelihood. However, people with money employ expensive lawyers to try and wriggle out if it. Shakespeare: Henry VI:” The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers “.

11.) 20 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 06:45:25
If he feels that the charge is worth challenging then he should employ the “best” people he can afford to put forward his case/ argument.

12.) 20 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 08:14:21
Totally agree Tom.

13.) 20 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 15:41:35
Clearly drink drivers should not be able to - but sometimes do of course - get a lesser sentence because of being able to pay for rich lawyers. Drunk drivers climb into a car knowing they've been drinking and knowing that drink drivers like them can kill others in the car, in other cars and/ or themselves.

If Mudryk genuinely believes that he is innocenmt of what he consumed and that part of it was illegal in FIFA ruling - and though many will think his innocence unlikely it is possible and he has to have the right to argiue his case - then it is not wrong that he has good lawyers reprsenting him. What is wrong, and thios goes for so many other crimes, is that the poor may also get represented by seldom if ever get the best.

14.) 20 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 16:43:08
Of course he has a right to challenge the charge. I can’t think of any athlete who hasn’t. Let’s hope it is resolved quickly. JBS poor people do get adequate legal representation in crime. However, unless you have money you can’t enforce your rights in civil law which is an area that is overlooked. I was part of a Class action for a data breach I got a few hundred quid; that is usually the only way normal people get civil wrongs remedied.

15.) 20 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 16:44:51
I don’t blame the rich for being rich. I have no envy in my body.

They have the ability to spend there money how they choose . I would like to think if I was sh£t pot loaded I would spend some of my money on the injustices of this world rather than trying to evade justice.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter cause I’m skint.

16.) 23 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025 14:05:29
Make sure the findings are correct and process correct. then look to terminate his contract and avoid wasting any more money on the disaster that has been his chelsea career.