No drugs test for at least a quarter of EFL players in 2016-17
At least a quarter of players who appeared in the English Football League last season were not drugs tested by UK Anti-Doping (Ukad), despite a rise in testing across England's top divisions.Ukad collected 1,494 samples from 2,047 EFL players in 2016-17, leaving a minimum of 553 players untested.One player being tested twice would account for two samples.Professor Ivan Waddington, an expert in doping in sport, described the level of testing in the EFL as "unacceptable".Ukad does not disclose how many players were tested multiple times, meaning the percentage of untested players could feasibly be greater than a quarter.'I was only drugs tested once in the Premier League'What about the overall figures in England?The Football Association said it runs "one of the most comprehensive national an...