Stoke City striker Saido Berahino says spiked drink led to ban
ByReuters
Updated 31/03/2017 at 07:54 GMT
Stoke City striker Saido Berahino says he served an eight-week drugs suspension earlier this season after someone spiked his drink in a nightclub.
Stoke City's new English striker Saido Berahino poses with his jersey ahead of the English Premier League football match between Stoke City and Manchester United at the Bet365 Stadium in Stoke-on-Trent, central England on January 21, 2017.
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Berahino joined Stoke in January for a reported £12m having not played for former club West Brom since September 2016.
West Brom manager Tony Pulis had said repeatedly that the striker was not playing because of a lack of fitness.
"I still don't know who would do this to me," Berahino said in an interview with the BBC. "To be banned for something you haven't done is hard to take."
Berahino said he had never taken drugs and that the levels found in his body were "really low".
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Saido Berahino
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"You go on a night out, you don't know who you are around and there are people who are out to get you," he added.
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.
After the 23-year-old joined Stoke, manager Mark Hughes said Berahino had been suspended for an FA disciplinary matter.
Newspaper reports said he had failed an out-of-competition drugs test.
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