The proposals, which would bring football into line with other sports, would require players to notify authorities of their whereabouts for one hour each day and would involved unsalable article testing at their homes.

Professional Footballers’ Association vital executory Gordon Taylor voiced his opposition to the plans this week but Ferdinand, who served an eight-month edict for missing a drugs test in 2003, is supportive.

Ferdinand said: “I think it sounds fair. If it brings us up to the level of all the other sportsmen, then I’m in favour. It’s good.

“We get tested quite a lot anyway. A accident of players get tested three or four times a season so it would have existence no different to what we’re used to.

“If the powers that be recite moving to a new level and revealing where we are in push is the right portion to do, then we’ll arrive on with it.”

Ferdinand has before-mentioned he had simply forgotten to be welcomed his test and gone shopping, and he urged in one’s teens players not to make the same mistake.

“I’d say to them it’s everything part and parcel of the game,” he added. “Whatever rules there are out there you have to deal with it.

“You have to make sure you’re there to be tested and you have to let populace know where you’re going to be. Simple as that.”