Football must do more in the global battle against drugs in sport, World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey said on Tuesday, supporting claims by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger that current policy was too lax.
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Amid questions about the use of performance-enhancing drugs in a number of sports, Wenger recently called for greater use of biological passports and increased testing for blood-booster erythropoetin in 'the world game'.
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'' Whatever the sport, wherever it is in the world, more can be done '', Fahey told a news conference in London, against the backdrop of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal that saw the US cyclist stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for drug use.
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'' I saw some examples recently, in tennis, where senior players were saying they were not tested terribly regularly '', Fahey said.
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'' I simply say this about football - they are not testing enough for EPO. They can do more and we encourage them to do more ''.
Footballers need to be investigated too like others in other sport. Fifa should see to it