Stoke City's Saido Berahino

Drugs ban came from spiked drink: Berahino

Editorial

31. mars 2017

Football

Stoke City striker Saido Berahino says he was an innocent party and did not take drugs claiming to the BBC someone spiked his drink which led to an eight week ban earlier this season.

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The 23-year-old — who moved to Stoke from Premier League rivals West Brom in the January transfer window for £12million ($15 million, 13.9 million euros) — claimed his drink was spiked at a night club.

«To be banned for something you really haven’t done is hard to take,» the former England Under-21 international told the BBC adding the level of the drug in his body was so low it proved he hadn’t intentionally taken it.

«You go on a night out, you don’t know who you are around and there are people who are out to get you.

«Of course, I was in a nightclub, so I hold my hand up for being irresponsible.

«From then on it all crashed down. To this day, I still cannot understand who would want to do that to me.»

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