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Blatter is not impressed by the FA's handling of the Ferdinand case

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has asked the Football Association not to waste any more time in reforming its drug-testing procedures.

And Blatter insisted the FA's response to Rio Ferdinand's failure to provide a sample for a drug test was wrong.

He said the case was a classic example of how the matter must not be conducted in future.

"[The Rio Ferdinand case] was handled like a schoolboy matter," Blatter told BBC Sport in an exclusive.

"It was how a matter should not be dealt with.

"The regulations of Fifa are very clear. If someone deliberately misses a doping test, he must be suspended immediately.

"This was not the case. The FA did not do it, so we can only see how the case was handled.

"We are yet to receive the case file, so I can only make a statement on why the case was not handled properly when the file is in my hands.

"The matter was not handled the right way but I am not going to talk about whether the sanctions were appropriate without having the full facts of the case.

"But all around the world, we defend the concept of individual case management, as everyone has the right to be assessed personally."

Blatter questions drug bans

Blatter was also critical of footballers who did not admit they had done something wrong when they fell foul of drug laws.

Inter Milan striker Mohammed Kallon and Perugia midfielder Saadi Gadaffi were banned for eight and three months respectively after traces of the anabolic steroid nandrolone were found in the urine samples.

Both denied taking any substances that could have led to their positive results.

"I have never seen, outside the Catholic religion, somebody who admitted that he made a mistake," said Blatter.

"In the Catholic religion you can go to confess your sins to a priest and you think you are freed of everything.

"But in those two cases the Italian Federation acted properly and correctly by immediately suspending them and investigating the cases before making their decision."