Drugs in sport

In the corporate media, the current hot topic is doping in sport or the use of performance enhancing substances in the football code of AFL previously known as VFL, in particular to a Victorian team Essendon. Drugs are not limited to the AFL.

U.S. cycling champion Lance Armstrong, has been caught out using performance enhancing drugs, and consequently his previous first place wins have been deleted from the record books. His carefully scripted interview with Oprah, was farcical, explaining the definition of cheating from the ‘dictionary’. The joke is on the uneducated commoner.

Being ‘THE’ topic in the media, a football program called ‘Footy Classified’ recently referred to its viewers with the quote ‘to layman at home’, explaining some of the details of the allegations. On the program also it was noted that the Essendon football players involved in the allegations, in any previously public engagements proudly wore their signature football colours, whereas in the media interviews denounced any visible association with  their team Essendon.

The football code VFL was created by the ‘authorities’ to keep the commoners busy on the weekends, and to occupy them during the week with meaningless competitions and trivia, in order to distract them from the machinations of the ruling elite. This is a well known and well documented fact.

Currently the AFL is a billion dollar industry, vast approaching a multi-billion dollar business.

Corruption in the police force as well as with the legal profession working together with corrupt judges, associated (read: paid off ) with high profile betting syndicates, together with well established drug families, will ensure that no one of significance will get prosecuted.

Some players are involved not only in criminal activities, but also deal in drugs with the help of biker gangs, to which the authorities turn a ‘blind eye’.

At the end o f the day, the ‘authorities’ will stop at nothing to keep this multi-billion dollar industry churning out the profits from the ‘layman’, the uneducated commoner. 

It is of little doubt that the current scandal will blow over with nothing more than a ripple in the industry.