Ferguson hits out at testing

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Top players are now set to be subjected to new procedures which will mirror the system in athletics that requires testers to know the whereabouts of players during a one-hour window of any given day.

But the Manchester United boss, who lost Rio Ferdinand to a ban in 2004 due to a missed drugs test, insists that the plan is riddled with potential problems.

Ferguson, whose side host Stoke tomorrow, said: "The procedures are becoming a real nuisance to us. If you give a player a day off, you have to notify the FA and tell them where he will be for one hour during his day off.

"But you know what young people are like. They might forget and, in that hour, the testers can turn up. I can also tell the FA that it will cost them an absolute fortune to implement all this."