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<\/p>\nIvory Coast international Toure joined Manchester City in 2009<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes Kolo Toure’s failed drugs test is a result of the player taking a “slimming product belonging to his wife”.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Manchester City defender, 29, has been suspended after testing positive for a specified substance. <\/p>\n
But Toure’s ex-boss Wenger has spoken to the player and said: “He wants to control his weight a little bit because that’s where he has some problems. <\/p>\n
“He has a clean life, is very honest, is always at home and is a family man.” <\/p>\n
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Toure was informed by the Football Association that he failed a test taken at the Manchester derby last month where he was an unused substitute. <\/p>\n
The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) defines a specified substance as one that is “more susceptible to a credible, non-doping explanation”.<\/p>\n
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Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The punishment for this offence ranges from a warning to a two-year ban. <\/p>\n After Toure’s A sample returned positive, City confirmed in a statement that the player had been suspended “pending the outcome of the legal process”. <\/p>\n Toure has until Wednesday, 9 March to decide whether or not he wants a B sample to be tested. If he does and it comes back negative then the case would be closed and Toure regarded as not guilty. <\/p>\n However, if he does not then he will have to submit an explanation and would face a lengthy disciplinary procedure. <\/p>\n BBC sports news correspondent Dan Roan told BBC Radio 5 live: “A specified substance, according to Wada, is one more susceptible to a credible, non-doping explanation because of its general availability in medicines.” <\/p>\n \t\t\t Since football signed up to Wada’s code, testing has become more stringent and targeted, and ignorance is not regarded as a defence. <\/p>\n Hamilton Academical midfielder Simon Mensing recently <\/p>\n <\/p>\n served a four-week ban<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n after a specified substance was detected in his system. <\/p>\n However, former Sheffield United goalkeeper Paddy Kenny served a <\/p>\n <\/p>\n nine-month suspension<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n after testing positive for the stimulant ephedrine. <\/p>\n It took two months for the case to be heard and the player’s defence of the drug being present in cough medicine <\/p>\n <\/p>\n was dismissed.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Roan added: “There seems little doubt Toure’s season is over, it’s now whether or not his entire career at Manchester City is in jeopardy too because he could face a two-year ban if he’s found guilty.” <\/p>\n Ivory Coast international Toure, whose brother Yaya also plays for City, is a former club captain who <\/p>\n <\/p>\n joined from Arsenal<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n in July 2009. <\/p>\n The defender has gone on to make more than 50 appearances for City, although he was not involved in <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wednesday’s FA Cup victory<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n over Aston Villa. <\/p>\n The failed test automatically triggered the suspension and it is understood that Toure was left out of the squad because the club had been made aware of the situation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n City added in the statement: “There will be no further comment from the football club at this stage.” <\/p>\n And on Thursday evening the FA said in a statement: “The FA can confirm that a player has been provisionally suspended from playing pending investigation, having tested positive for the use of a prohibited substance.” <\/p>\n Mensing, 28, tested positive for the stimulant methylhexaneamine at the end of January and subsequently missed five matches after a period of ineligibility was imposed on him. <\/p>\n The player maintained he was unaware he had ingested the substance while using a dietary supplement – an explanation which was accepted by UK Anti-Doping. <\/p>\n In Kenny’s instance, Christopher Quinlan – the chairman of the Regulatory Commission which heard the case – said that a professional sportsman “has a strict responsibility to ensure prohibited substances do not enter his or her body”. <\/p>\n Toure was the skipper of City until the start of the current season when the armband passed to Carlos Tevez. <\/p>\n The Ivorian defender was brought to the Premier League <\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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