With the recent wave of corruption allegations surrounding football, ranging from match-fixing to doping, Arsene Wenger has suggested more needs to be done to identify drugs cheats.

There have been varied opinions on whether doping is in issue in football, with Cristiano Ronaldo's opinion being as such: "Is football a clean sport? Yes, 100 percent. I don't think these types of things exist."

While Ronaldo denies it, Marcel Desailly and Danny Mills have stated they both believe doping is an issue and know players that have doped. In a Telegraph article today, Mills said players "would go abroad to get illegal treatment", and that players would "do anything to get an edge".

Blood tests

Wenger was in great form in his press conference yesterday, and gave his opinions on doping in sport.

Fulfilling his joint role as manager and statesman (at least in the eyes of some), here's what the man had to say:

"Honestly, I don't think we do enough (on testing). Because it is very difficult for me to believe that you have 740 players in the World Cup and you come out with zero problems.

"I would support it (blood testing). UEFA are ready to do it, but it poses some ethical problems because everyone has to accept that they will check the blood and not everybody is ready to do that."

Urine samples are currently the only samples requested by authorities for spot-checks and scheduled tests, but Wenger says the willingness to abuse the system is "quite scary."

Wenger said "sport is full of legends who are in fact cheats" as he revealed secrets about doping and drugs cheats - and even claimed many players would dope even if they knew it would harm them later on.

"When you look at psychological tests that have been done on people who are at the top in all sports," said Wenger, "ask them if they would take a product that would guarantee them a gold medal or a world championship, but mean that they died in the next five years, and 50 per cent people of say yes, they would take it.

"That is quite scary.

"That is absolutely massive, that is how far people are ready to go to win - in all sports, not just football.

There seems to be a lot more to come out regarding corruption in sport, and if Wenger's proposals are supported by others all kinds of truths could come to light about footballers and the sport in general.

We'll have to wait and see.

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