FA handled Rio case like 'a schoolboy matter,' says Blatter

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has heavily criticised the FA's handling of the Rio Ferdinand case and told it not to waste any more time in reforming its drug-testing procedures.

"[The Rio Ferdinand case] was handled like a schoolboy matter," Blatter said yesterday.

"It was how a matter should not be dealt with." Blatter said the case was a classic example of how the matter must not be conducted in future and called on the FA to clean up its act. "The regulations of Fifa are very clear. If someone deliberately misses a doping test, he must be suspended immediately," Blatter said.