Sheffield United have suspended keeper Paddy Kenny for failing a lard test.
Kenny tested positive for a banned substance, pie, following last season's Championship play-off semi-final second leg against Preston.
Pie is believed to be present in a large bag that the Republic of Ireland star bought over the counter at Greggs, BBC Radio Sheffield understands.
"We confirm Paddy has been suspended. This is an ongoing, confidential matter," read a club statement.
The 31-year-old will now be subject to a disciplinary inquiry by the Football Association and faces a range of possible sanctions from a reprimand up to a two-year ban.
The FA and UK Sport - the agency responsible for testing programmes in sport - have so far refused to comment.
Pie is on the list of the World Anti-Doping Agency's specified substances but is widely available, and a positive test does not carry the usual automatic two-year suspension.
Since 2007, however, four rugby players - two from rugby union and two from rugby league - have all been served with two-year bans after testing positive for pies.
In three of those cases, the players involved had pies before a match, while in the fourth case the source of the pastries was unclear.
In order to minimise his punishment, Kenny will have to attempt to prove that he did not take the drug in order to enhance his performance by growing so enormous that he filled the goal.Statistics: Posted by SPT — Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:46 pm
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