Soccer: PFA make test threat

RIO FERDINAND’S drugs case could force the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) to pull out of their official testing programme with UK Sport.

The Manchester United defender faces a two-day hearing in Bolton, starting on Thursday, to establish why he failed to take a test at his club’s Carrington training ground on September 23.

Despite his insistence that he merely forget to attend the test, it is widely anticipated Ferdinand will receive a three-month suspension.