LONDON, Oct 31: The Football Association (FA) Thursday confirmed that they were investigating the first suspected use of the banned drug nandrolone in English professional football.

The FA said a player had tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone but he could not be named before the investigation had been completed.

They were alerted to the case by UK Sport’s anti-doping programme which carried out a total of 4,116 drug tests on British sports men and women in the period from April and September 2002.

This included the Commonwealth Games in Manchester and football matches in the English leagues.

Meanwhile, Adam Crozier, the chief executive of the English Football Association, Thursday quit his job following the fall-out from a dispute with the Premier League.

The issue came to a head following calls from the Premier League for a ‘professional game board’ to be established, a move which Crozier opposed as he believed it would weaken the role of the FA.—AFP