Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is adamant more must be done to stamp out potential doping in football, with the use of blood tests for starters.
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In the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal, as well as claims of widespread doping in Australian sport, Wenger believes now is the time to weed out drug cheats in the beautiful game.
"Honestly, I don't think we do enough, because it is very difficult for me to believe that you have 740 players in the World Cup and you come out with zero problems," the Frenchman said.
"Mathematically that happens every time, but statistically, even for social drugs, it looks like we could do better and go deeper."
Wenger continued: "When you have a doping control at UEFA, they do not take blood, they take only urine. I have asked many times at UEFA meetings in Geneva for that to be changed.
"Sometimes you have to wait for two hours after the game, so blood could be a lot quicker. We could go much deeper into control.
"I hope we in England do not have a big problem with doping, but we have to try to find out and see how deep we can go into control.
"I would support it. UEFA is ready to do it, but it poses some ethical problems because everyone has to accept that they will check the blood and not everybody is ready to do that."
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