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Solving Samir Nasri's PR Crisis by the Lessons of Vardy, Ferdinand and Gray

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"I was always told, 'Remember who you are, what you are and who you represent: the Arsenal.'"

A few minutes before 1 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Dec. 27, a tweet launched from the account of Los Angeles-based sports clinic Drip Doctors. It claimed to have administered a drip to French international Samir Nasri, designed "to keep him hydrated and in top health during his busy soccer season with Sevilla."

If true, one litre of hydration fluid would have been delivered to Nasri, in direct contravention of the World Anti-Doping Agency's allowance for intravenous drips, which are limited to 50 millilitres.