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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Gabby Jules, blue skies over West London. Jules, great to have you back. It's an international |
0:10.4 | break, but there's still a ton of stuff going on. Talk about, there's the chaos with Germany |
0:15.9 | who just beat France, but obviously they're looking for a new manager. There's Italy after |
0:20.5 | their stinker against North Macedonia, a bit of a bounce back against Ukraine. There's |
0:24.2 | angry Gareth Southgate, who to think it? But I think there's one place to start, and that |
0:29.3 | is with Paul Pogba. He has tested positive for testosterone, and he faces up to a maximum |
0:39.0 | of four-year banal. For that to happen, they would have to prove that he did not, that |
0:44.8 | he took testosterone intentionally, with the aim of increasing performance. I think |
0:52.3 | that's going to be very difficult to prove. His defense will likely involve a whole bunch |
1:01.4 | of mitigating circumstances to try to pull out. But the reality in the immediate is that once |
1:08.3 | again, it's another blow between this and the injuries, and the brother and the childhood |
1:15.2 | friends trying to extort money from him. It's incredible that we find ourselves in a situation |
1:22.6 | given where Pogba was five, six years ago. Yeah, I mean, the downfall since the 2018 |
1:27.8 | walk-up, really, where he was on top of the world. In the way he played, and also what |
1:34.0 | he won, it's just incredible, remarkable. You don't have to feel sorry if it's not about |
1:38.4 | feeling sorry or not. It's just another challenge ahead of him after, as you said, the witchcraft |
1:43.6 | and the extortion, the racketing, all of that. On top of all the injuries, on top of |
1:49.1 | that, move to UV, that return to UV, that hasn't worked out really last year at all. And |
1:54.5 | now this, whether it's a four-year ban, a two-year ban, whether it got away with it, which |
2:00.1 | looks very likely. The sample beat is going to come back before the end of the week. I think |
2:03.4 | Paul himself knows that that would be positive. Yeah, so for those who don't know, when people |
2:09.2 | are tested by doping agencies, they test what they call, they give two samples. They test |
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