champion jockey oisin murphy says he'll fight to clear his name after testing positive for cocaine. — but he says he's never taken the drug. our sports correspondent laura scott has been following this story for us. good evening. what has murphy had to say about all of this course ella he has maintained his innocence. he says he is never taking drugs. he says he is never taking drugs. he says he is never taking drugs. he says he doesn't come into contact with drugs. he doesn't even take painkillers he says. this relates to a routine you're in sample that he gave all racing in france on the 19th ofjuly, he then found out by text m essa g e 19th ofjuly, he then found out by text message from frantz gallo, the french racing authority on the 19th of august that he had tested positive with this a sample from the ta blets positive with this a sample from the tablets of cocaine. he then had an independent hair sample taken and that produced a negative result for cocaine. and then we got the statement today which has said sent shock waves through the racing industry and he said he wants to

champion jockey oisin murphy says he will "fight to clear his name" after testing positive for cocaineult came in france in july, with murphy strenously denying he's ever taken the drug. he's currently awaiting the result of a b sample. if he's not cleared, he'll face a ban of up to 6 months. he has 4 rides at chelmsford today, and is due to ride at ascot tomororw. england will be without centre manu tuilagi for the finale of the six nations and the autumn nations cup after being ruled out for six months because of injury. sale director of rugby steve diamond says tuilagi will undergo surgery next week on a torn achilles, picked up in the club's premiership victory over northampton earlier in the week. it means he'll miss england's remaining 2020 six nations game with italy and will also be unavailable for the autumn nations cup, which starts next month. two of english football's brightest talents, mason greenwood and phil foden will find out in the next half an hour if they'll be included in england's squad named at 2 o'clock after breaking covid—19 guidelines in iceland last month. f