Taylor upset over City’s Toure probe

GORDON Taylor last night labelled Manchester City’s decision to hold a disciplinary hearing with Kolo Toure over his failed drugs test as “strange”.

Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA), attended yesterday’s hearing with Toure with the outcome of the gross misconduct charge expected later this week.

Toure, who has served a six-month ban imposed by the FA, produced character references from his former club Arsenal and a number of fellow players. He insists he tested positive because he took one of his wife’s slimming pills not knowing it contained a banned substance.