http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news;_ylt=ArRRo9Dw5X.qxPz7MYT6vQ8HNgU6?slug=ro-toure030511 Ignorance seems to be in abundant supply among today’s English Premier League stars, a personality trait that is spreading like an epidemic among the cash-laden young men that ply their trade in soccer’s toughest competition. Unfortunately for Kolo Toure, it is not a defense. Toure, the Manchester City defender, could face a two-year ban from soccer after failing a drug test which was administered after his team’s 2-1 defeat at Manchester United on February 12. He has, through an advisor and in a conversation with his mentor, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, claimed his positive “A” sample was as a result of taking a dietary supplement given to him by his wife and insisted he had no knowledge that it contained a banned substance. And his words – true though they may be – just don’t wash. Toure’s assertion that he did not try to claim an unfair advantage is easy to believe, but it should not protect him against the full force of the soccer authorities, and a punishment which is likely to be between four and nine months but could be longer.
