OK, so there are things that I care more about than Samir Nasri and his IV-administered electrolytes. Things like what Hillary Benn had for lunch or whether or not my neighbour likes carrots. However, the procedure is not what's caught my eye. The fact that he had it in 2016 and the anti-doping agencies are only now suspending him - that's what's got my goat.
In fact, it's not even the anti-doping agencies that have suspended him, it's UEFA. What have they been doing all this time? Each other?
Now, there are strict rules in place to ensure that no clean athlete gets (for the lack of a better word) convicted, but surely it doesn't take 18 months to prove it one way or the other.
The other thing that bugs me is that he now has a six month suspension. Are you aware he has been without a club for the last three weeks? More to the point, he continued to play for Sevilla (on loan from Man City) long after he got caught.
Look at other athletes that went through the same thing, they ended up getting immediately suspended and then the investigation happened. What was different this time?
It's pathetic. All of it. The system is broken. And if the system is broken, then anyone could slip through the net. Nasri only got caught because the clinic where he received his chronic lack of performance enhancing drugs tweeted about it!
