Drug cheats do sometimes prosper (especially in football)

In one case, cheats did prosper, in another case they did not. I have railed against the cheating play of german football teams before, both at domestic and international level. I hate watching their play, always on the edge watching for a despicable sly challenge and their rolling about on the floor in epileptic fits if an opponent invades their body space. I simply don't know how they avoided the reputation that has stuck to Italians and Latin Americans. 


Anyhow, it has now been revealed that in the first World Cup Final at which testing was introduced, 3 german players failed drugs tests. The results were not released at the time, probably because England actually won, but the players escaped any sanctions for their cheating. In this case, cheats did not prosper, but they did escape punishment for their cheating. 


Of note is the peculiar case of the West German team that beat the much favoured Hungarians in the 1954 World Cup Final. There was no drug testing.  Bear in mind, the German team was comprised of amateurs and had been beaten 8-3 by the Hungarians 2 weeks earlier. The Hungarians were 2-0 up after 18 minutes, and the amateur Germans got stronger as the game went on. Many of the W. German team disappeared to a sanatorium to convalesce several weeks after the 1954 World Cup Final because they had contracted jaundice.  Although early days for drug testing, the W. Germans are believed to have been injected  with methamphetamine, a stimulant used by nazi tank crews and pilots during World War II and which was therefore familiar to the Germans. Cheats did prosper.