{"id":439387,"date":"2011-06-10T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T14:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/10\/doctor-not-blamed-for-toure-ban\/"},"modified":"2011-06-10T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T14:11:27","slug":"doctor-not-blamed-for-toure-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/10\/doctor-not-blamed-for-toure-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor not blamed for Toure ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Kolo Toure’s last appearance for City was against Fulham in February<\/span> <\/p>\n

Manchester City doctor Jamie Butler has been cleared of blame over Kolo Toure’s six-month ban for failing a drugs test<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old defender was banned in May<\/a> for using his wife’s diet tablets.<\/p>\n

Toure had claimed City’s club doctor authorised him to take the pills – but a Football Association report disagreed.<\/p>\n

It stated: “Butler never told him it was safe to use water tablets and he would unequivocally have said they were prohibited and should not be used.”<\/p>\n

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He has become obsessed with his weight and more particularly the appearance of his belly<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

FA report<\/span><\/div>\n

The Ivory Coast international said he had been given the tablets by his wife and that he had shown Dr Butler the substance before taking it.<\/p>\n

However Butler refuted this claim and the FA report added: “It was not suggested that Dr Butler was shown the medicine bottle with ‘water tablets x21’ at any stage.”<\/p>\n

The documents added that Toure had regular issues with his weight, which led him to take slimming tablets.<\/p>\n

“The context is that for some years KT Kolo Toure has had a problem controlling his weight.<\/p>\n

“He has become obsessed with his weight and more particularly the appearance of his belly.”<\/p>\n

Toure’s ban is backdated to 2 March, when his provisional suspension began.<\/p>\n

He will be free to play for City from 2 September but is subject to a two-year period of target-testing that began on 26 May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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