The application of UK Sports proposed anti-doping regulations from the start of next season have been branded "overkill" by Fraser Wishart, Chief Executive of the Professional Footballers' Association Scotland. Under the scheme, 30 of the top players in Scotland will be required to inform UK Sport testers where they will be for one hour of every day of the year. Wihart is to hold talks with the SFA about the proposals which would align footballers with Olympic athletes i9n terms of availability for testing. Players could face two-year bans if they were unavailable for testing on three occasions.

Wishart said: "We think it is overkill. We're not sure who is going to be chosen, but I would imagine it will be international players and top club ones. We're obviously opposed to any kind of doping in football, but I can't think of a case in the UK where a player has been found with performance-enhancing drugs in his system. We feel there is already a robust system within football, and that the testing being proposed is more appropriate for individual athletes."

There were suggestions that players could circumvent current doping tests by taking performance-enhancing drugs in the close season. However, Wishart countered this when he said: "Footballers are very rarely out of competition. It's an 11-month season with three or four weeks off in the summer. Contractually, they are only given 20 days' holiday. Six days out of seven, it's very simple to find out where a football player is going to be. He will be at his training ground, the club, or at a game. I can understand the whereabouts ruling for athletes, but not in football where every player has a place of work. Already at every (SPL) game, there's a chance a player is going to be tested. In international and European football, there is automatic testing for selected players. In theory, a player could be tested every single day he turns up for his work."