- Sensational accusations presented in parliament on Tuesday
- League accused of hiding players’ positive test results
- Clubs Create Fake Injuries to Hide Drug Use, Allegedly
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Former Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Kel Glare has called on all AFL executives who were aware of the league’s secretive drug testing regime to resign over the “disgraceful” scandal.
Glare, who was the state’s top cop for five years, said the league has been making it easier for soccer stars to take drugs after sensational allegations were made against the league and its clubs in federal parliament.
On Tuesday night, MP Andrew Wilkie revealed that whistleblowers, including a former Melbourne Demons president and club doctor, alleged the AFL organizes secret, unregistered drug testing that prevents stars from facing punishment.
Kel Glare, who spent five years as Victoria’s top police officer, demanded all AFL bosses who knew about the secret drug testing system resign immediately.
Glare believes executives like recently deceased CEO Gillon McLachlan (pictured) have to go because they presided over a system that “encourages drug use.”
Wilkie alleged widespread drug abuse among football stars and claimed that fake injuries are created so that players who use drugs cannot be tested for illicit substances on game day, when positive results would face lengthy bans from the game. sport.
Now Glare has demanded that all football bosses who knew about the unofficial testing plan leave their jobs.
‘It is deplorable and shameful behavior. They (the AFL) are facilitating the use of illicit drugs,” he told the Herald of the sun.
“By not reporting those who use drugs, drug use is encouraged because these footballers are not going to stop doing it unless there is some reason to do so.”
‘All leaders should resign.
“Anyone in the AFL who had knowledge of this and did nothing should resign – it would be the only honorable thing to do.”
If Glare had his way, AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder (left) and current chief executive Andrew Dillon (left) would fall on their swords.
His call for resignation was also taken up by AFL Fans’ Association founder Brian Clarke, who called for AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder to resign.
Goyder and former AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan were mentioned in Wilkie’s speech to parliament, in which he accused league executives of trying to cover up the Melbourne Demons coach’s alleged drug use. , Simon Goodwin.
Wilkie told parliament that former Demons chairman Glen Bartlett told Goyder and McLachlan “that he planned to address cocaine abuse at his club at all levels, including executive level”, but the pair discussed the matter “arrogant” and nothing was done. .
Federal MP Andrew Wilkie (pictured) made sensational allegations in federal parliament
Wilkie cited whistleblowers who claimed players are told to fake injuries so they are not caught with drugs in their system on game days (file image)
Responding to the wider allegations surrounding his football club and the AFL as a whole, Goodwin insisted he was not aware of any potential scandals.
He called the allegations “new to me” and said he had “no line of sight” into the alleged clandestine evidence provided by the league.
The AFL’s current drug policy has been in place since 2005.
After the scandal broke, the league said it made no apologies for the unofficial plan, which it maintains is in place to protect “the medical interests and well-being of the players.”