(Top photo: Dan Hamilton / USA Today Sports)Last week, the Football Association, which handles all anti-doping testing for English football in partnership with UK Anti-Doping, fined Manchester City £35,000 for failing to report the whereabouts of their players on three separate occasions. This, apparently, is part of a crackdown of sorts on the FA's part. On 17 February, Bournemouth were charged with a similar offence, and on 1 February Fleetwood Town were fined £4,000 for the same violation.Curiously, these punishments are very different from what an individual athlete would face for the same infraction, despite the fact that both adhere to World Anti-Doping Agency's protocols. If an Olympic athlete, for example, were to provide inaccurate whereabouts information three times, as Manchester City did, in an 18-month period, he or she would face a one-to-two-year ban under WADA's rules and regulations because it's considered equivalent to a positive test. So, too, would an individual player in the Premier League if he personally gave inaccurate whereabouts information three times.This discrepancy in punishment for the same crime violates one of WADA's core philosophical underpinnings of unified rules around the world. So, why the massive difference? In order to explain, we have to go back to why the whereabouts rule exists in the first place.Read the rest over on VICE Sports.