[Salopbaggie]

Possession of drugs is an offence even if you are a footballer.

The question is for me 4eva is are the F.A. and West Brom complicit in the obstruction of justice, morally, if not legally?

I do struggle with the natural justice element of how the F.A. can, to all intense and purpose, accept that a "criminal act" has been committed by someone under their area of control, to a sufficient extent to punish that person for it, without reporting it to the police. While I am unaware of any law which says they "must" report his actions, there is certainly other legislation the club could have fell foul of, safeguarding of minors being one example.

Of course that is assuming that this "recreational drug" was actually an illegal one and not one which is just banned under F.A. rules.