Jamie Hughes (footballer)

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Jamie Hughes is a current semi-professional and former professional English footballer who is notable for becoming the first British footballer to fail a test for a performance-enhancing drug. While a YTS player with Division One Tranmere Rovers in May 1995, he failed a drugs test and was discovered to have taken amphetamines. His punishment for the offence was a six-month ban from football (suspended for two years). [1]

Hughes has since played at non-league level for clubs including Vauxhall Motors and Lancaster City [2] , as well as Connah's Quay Nomads in the League of Wales and Derry City in the Irish league. [3]