Hibernian footballer fails drugs test after a match
Should it uphold the findings – and the results of a second sample are awaited – they will then pass down any sanction.
Possible punishments would include a lengthy ban.
Until then, all sides are keeping their counsel.
Hibs and the Scottish Football Association (SFA), who have no role to play in the actual testing process, both said “no comment” when we contacted them.
Insall played just a minute- anda- half of the Livingston match, having been brought on as a substitute.
His most recent appearance came a fortnight later when he featured against Brechin City, again off the substitutes’ bench.
In the following matches, against Stenhousemuir and Queen’s Park, he was not involved, with the Fifers listing only five substitutes on both occasions due to injury problems.
Failed drug tests are few and far between in Scottish football.
Up until January, UK AntiDoping had carried out no drug tests in Scotland this season, but is now delivering a programme on behalf of the SFA.
An SFA spokesman previously described the current anti- doping procedures as being “intelligence-led”.
In the best-known case in recent times, Partick Thistle’s Jordan McMillan was handed a two- year ban after traces of cocaine were found in a sample following a game at Celtic in December 2014. THEY are some of the best known characters in modern Scottish fiction.
The antics of Begbie, Renton, Sickboy and Spud made the novel Trainspotting a cult classic.
But now its writer Irvine Welsh has told how the inspiration for them came from another group of much-loved Scottish characters – Oor Wullie and The Broons.
Irvine has revealed how, as a child, he was an avid reader of The Sunday Post’s children’s supplement, The Funday Post.
Irvine, 58, who was born in Leith and grew up in Edinburgh’s Muirhouse but now lives in Chicago, said: “I read The Funday Post every Sunday and was probably influenced by the tales of Oor Wullie and The Broons when I was growing up.
“Everything you read is an influence on you and you never know how much or how little that is.”
Trainspotting burst on to Scottish bookshelves in 1993. It was turned into a smash hit film in 1996, starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald.
Thistle terminated his contract two months later, though the ban itself was later reduced by a month following “substantial assistance” provided by McMillan.
He returned to training with Dunfermline and now plays for League Two club Clyde.
Insall got his chance with Hibs on the back of prolific form in English non-league football.
The season before he travelled north, he had hit 30 goals for Bromyard Town.
While he has not made the hoped- for breakthrough at Easter Road, he has done well at East Fife, scoring 14 times in nearly 50 appearances.
A spokeswoman for UKAD last night said it was bound by confidentiality and could not comment.
When The Sunday Post phoned the player, he initially hung up.
We called back and spoke to his fiancée who said Jamie was not available, before adding “no comment”.