PAUL POGBA has insisted he is “not a cheater” after the former Manchester United star was banned for doping.
Pogba had his FOUR-YEAR ban for doping charges reduced to 18-months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport earlier this month after an appeal.
The France international opened up on his experience after the ban in an interview with Sky Sports News.
Pogba insisted that he isn’t a cheater as he sat down to explain what happened with his ban.
He said: “I accept responsibility of taking the supplement but I didn’t triple check it.
“If I have to be punished then I’m fine with it but it should never have been four years. I will accept 12 months.”
Asked to reassure his fans that he has always played clean and not taken performance enhancing drugs, Pogba replied: “When you see me, you know me. People know me.
“So even when everything happened people said: ‘we know Paul, he would never take that. If he did, he wouldn’t have known and it won’t have been on purpose’.
“And this it totally the truth.”
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