A former Super League player has lifted the lid on the scale of drug abuse in rugby league after receiving a backdated suspension from UK Anti-Doping - insisting that you were 'abnormal' if you didn't use either recreational or performance-enhancing drugs during his time in the sport.
Jamie Acton appeared at the highest level of the professional game for Leigh Centurions and began his career in the prestigious Wigan Warriors youth setup.
He has now retired from the sport to pursue other opportunities but revealed this week how he has been banned after a sample from eight years ago was retrospectively tested. UKAD described the case as the first of its kind, where adverse findings were discovered after re-analysis of a sample that had been stored.
