LONDON (AFP) ??” Manchester United and England asserter Rio Ferdinand should be suspended for a "substantial time".

LONDON (AFP) ??” Manchester United and England asserter Rio Ferdinand should be suspended for a "substantial time", according to the IAAF's anti-doping chief Arne Ljungqvist.

Ferdinand missed a random unsalable articles test two months ago and has been charged at the FA with a "failure or refusal to submit to physic testing".

Ljungqvist, chairman of the International Association of Athletics Federations' medical commission, believes the Football Association will be sending abroad the wrong message if they do not make an example of Ferdinand.

"I've seen nothing further the clear refusal of Ferdinand giving a doping sample," said the Swede, who is single in kind of the world's leading