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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger wants blood testing to catch drug cheats

Image: Arsene Wenger: Believes more must be done in the war against drugs in football

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has called for stricter doping controls in football and believes it is vital that players give blood.

Deeper justice

Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes is currently on trial in Spain following his arrest as part of the Operation Puerto doping case, with the former president of Spanish side Real Sociedad, Inaki Badiola, admitting earlier this week that during 2008 the club made payments to Dr Fuentes for the supply of medicine to the team. Dr Fuentes denies any knowledge of a conspiracy to dope. Wenger feels it is time for those who are found to be involved in doping to give up all they know, adding: "What I am concerned about in the trial of the Spanish doctor is that he is in front of the justice (system) only to see how he did doping - they are not interested at all in whom he has doped. "They have found packets of blood, but they don't even ask to whom does that belong? "The only thing we know is that the former (president) of Real Sociedad, who came out, is involved in that. "The justice should go deeper. "When you look at the functions of this doctor it is quite scary - he was involved in the Olympic team, football team, cycling team." Wenger, though, conceded there was also a human factor which had to be taken into account with all such instances of doping - when some athletes are clearly "ready to do anything to win". He said: "When you look at psychological tests that have been done on people who are at the top in all sports, they ask them if they would take a product which would guarantee them a gold medal or a world championship, but also mean that they died in the next five years, and 50 per cent of people say yes, they would take it. That is quite scary." To find out more about live football on Sky Sports, Click here

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