Arsenal Manager Arsène Wenger accused UEFA of "accepting doping in football after there was no team punishment" against Croatian football club Dinamo Zagreb despite one of its players failing a drug test following its Champions League win against Arsenal earlier this season, according to Jeremy Wilson of the London TELEGRAPH. Midfielder Arijan Ademi has "been banned for four years after testing positive for an as yet unidentified substance" against Arsenal on Sept. 16, but Zagreb’s 2-1 victory "will still stand." Ademi "denied deliberately doping and claimed he took a dietary supplement that was contaminated," while Dinamo said in a statement on Friday that it "would appeal." UEFA rules state that there will only be a team sanction "if more than two players at one club are found to have doped in one competition period." Asked if that rule surprised him, Wenger said, "Yes of course. If you say if there is a doped player, the result stands that means you basically accept doping. But we also have to concentrate on what we did wrong in that game" (TELEGRAPH, 11/23).
