Also, the effect lasted for days and was followed by a sudden, tremendous tiredness.”He said a lot of players were reluctant to take them. Taking advice from senior players, they hid them under their tongues and spat them out in the toilet. Perhaps as a joke or by coercion, he took one of the white pills that was going around. All the living greats from HH’s Grande Inter were hauled into court, one by one, to give testimony. When I asked his brother, Sandro, about HH’s doping programme, I discovered that his stance has softened since he first refused to accept his brother’s whistle-blowing campaign almost two decades earlier.

Source: Irish Examiner February 17, 2026 10:12 UTC