Can't use ignorance as defence for positive drug test , FIFA executive tells Kolo Toure

FIFA chief Jerome Valcke has warned Manchester City defender Kolo Toure that he cannot use ignorance as a defence for his positive drug test.

In the wake of failing to pass a drugs test, Toure had admitted that he took diet pills used by his wife to lose weight. The confession is likely to see him thrown out of football for two years.

Toure claimed that he had taken his wife Awo's diet pills and that they led to him testing positive for a banned substance after the Manchester derby last month.

But Valcke insisted: "You are a professional. At such a level you have a big enough entourage for you to call a person and say 'Is this pill good or bad?'"