Romario Bullies His Way To Reinstatement

Romario, the legendary Brazilian striker who was a living embodiment of the lost art of a prima donna striker who actually delivers, threatened and bullied his way to a successful reinstatement of his playing status after initially banned for 120 days due to failing a drug test after a Brazilian league match playing for his current club Vasco de Gama. Brazil's Superior Tribunal of Sports Justice acquitted him of the charges despite tests showing that he had used a drug which belonged to a category of anabolic steroid masking agents. Romario had argued that the drug was contained in an anti-balding medication that he was using and that the substance itself was not a steroid. Before the hearing, Romario had threatened to retire from soccer and walk away from the sport that he so loved. What is so ridiculous about this verdict is that whether the substance Romario had taken had direct performance enhancing ability or not, the rules clearly state that it was not allowed within the sport and so the right penalty was meted out. Now you will have players who will use these masking agents and then argue the precedence that this case has set. If this was not Romario and just some other unknown player, you would be sure that the guilty verdict would remain.