| red_rebel2 Posted on 8/11 12:10 | |
| "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
So said the club statement when Xavier was busted. But he will sign a new deal this week and may be playing against West Ham. | |
| London_Boro Posted on 8/11 12:11 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
They mean fans snorting coke in the toilets. | |
| Vinny_Garstroke Posted on 8/11 12:11 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
Morality goes out of the window, when Parnaby is the only alternative. | |
| trodbitch Posted on 8/11 12:17 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
Maybe they've introduced calculus into their working and are only interested in tolerance as it approaches zero but it ain't quite zero? | |
| red_rebel2 Posted on 8/11 12:19 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
desperation x league place = ambitions divided by social conscience. | |
| XXLshirts_fit_all Posted on 8/11 12:20 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
may be they think he didnt actually snort cocain or knowingly take performance enhancing drugs. the laws dont allow any flexibility though so he had to be banned | |
| trodbitch Posted on 8/11 12:22 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
Where's the room for flexibility in "zero tolerance" exactly? | |
| Kilburn Posted on 8/11 12:26 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
When you look at what happened though, the evidence points to the conclusion that Xavier didn't knowingly do anything wrong. Why else the reduction in his ban? If the club are confident of this, then it doesn't contradict their stated policy to sign him. | |
| red_rebel2 Posted on 8/11 12:33 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
If it was a genuine mistake and they thought it was just a inadvertant technical infringement, why sack him then? | |
| YodaTheCoder Posted on 8/11 12:35 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
What's the beef? We didn't tolerate him when he took drugs. Now he's clean we do. | |
| red_rebel2 Posted on 8/11 12:37 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
I just feel uncomfortable with it. Not so much the re-employment of someone who has been rehabilitated (we took Merson), more with what seems to be a slightly sheepish mumbling moral climbdown after a lot of sanctimonious bluster at the time. | |
| Mr_Incident Posted on 8/11 12:39 | |
| re: "zero tolerance on drugs" | |
Xavier said he tested positive, 'hereby confirmed this fact', that there was a harmless explanation, and 'in order to furnish his proof' he would undergo a number of tests. So presumably Southgate has been suitably furnished to give him a new contract. Lovely teak sideboard and a glass coffee table by all accounts. | |
