Fleetwood Town player given two-year ban for taking steroids

Fleetwood Town’s Gerard Kinsella has been banned from football for two years after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone. The midfielder, 21, admitted a Football Association charge in relation to a breach of its anti-doping regulations.
The suspension, which is subject to any appeal, will run until February 2015.
Kinsella said the positive test came after his cousin, a taxi driver, twice injected him with a substance to relieve the pain of a shoulder injury.
Neil Kinsella told an FA commission that he used the drug, Durabolin, himself as a painkiller and was not aware it was also known as ‘nandrolone’ – a performance-enhancing drug which reduces fatigue and promotes muscle growth.
The two injections took place at the player’s home on consecutive days at the end of December 2012, shortly before he moved on a month’s loan to non-league AFC Telford, where he played seven times and scored one goal