My second favorite soccer player next to Beckham, Rio Ferdinand, has been suspended 8 months for missing a drug test. Players are selected randomly the day of the test and are given a one-hour window to report for the test. He claims that he simply forgot about the test and when he realized what had happened, he returned to the facility to try to take the test. The testers though had left by then. Rio did pass a drug test the following day and has never tested positive for drugs. This sounds like a very harsh penalty to me.
BBC SPORT | Football | Ferdinand banned for eight months: "Rio Ferdinand has been banned for eight months and fined £50,000 by the Football Association after being found guilty of missing a drugs test."