How many clubs are up to speed?

SO, let’s get this straight. The FA can demand punishment for someone taking a purely recreational drug and then allow a club to lie to its fans?

It turns out there have been 13 failed tests for recreational drugs since 2012, but their identities have always been protected.

Presuming they have been banned, clubs have then not given the real reasons for their absence, like when West Brom said Saido Berahino (below) was not paying because he had put on some timber.

They suggested he was slow rather than on speed.

Do we have a right to know if Berahino had taken MDMA in his life? Not really. But West Brom fans deserved not to be deceived by their club.

It is hard to understand why the FA test for recreational drugs anyway. Surely, it’s an employeremployee situation?

But if they want to get all moral about it and punish a player who tries marijuana or a recreational drug, then it should not allow its morality to be covered up.

Plus, anyone playing for your club been out “injured” for a while? They might not be injured, they might have been caught taking ecstasy.

You have to believe Stoke, West Brom and their managers when they all said the buying club was aware of Berahino’s transgression ahead of its purchase... but you can’t be sure.

GIANNI INFANTINO, FIFA’s president, selected himself to play in the same team as Diego Maradona in a recent “legends” match.

Now, Maradona will have an official role with FIFA.

“Yes, it’s official. I can finally fulfil one of the dreams of my life, to work for a clean and transparent FIFA,” said Maradona, sent home from the 1994 World Cup for failing a drugs test. Leaving aside the unlikelihood of it being “one of the dreams” of his life, Maradona’s exact role is yet to be determined.

But my guess is it will be mainly alongside Infantino in midfield for PR-stunt, FIFA football matches.

The previous incumbent had one hell of an ego... but his successor might just run him close.