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Mike Morgan isn’t a name well known to Liverpool fans but his expertise has given the club a significant boost ahead of the new season.

It’s thanks to Morgan, a world renowned expert in sports law, that Mamadou Sakho is free to resume his Reds career after UEFA’s Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body dismissed the doping charge against him.

Analysis of the sample Sakho gave after the Europa League clash with Manchester United in March revealed the presence of a substance not on the banned list, but which the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) claimed was prohibited.

Sakho had taken a ‘fat burner’ without the club’s permission but Morgan Sports Law successfully disputed the classification of the substance at the hearing in Paris. UEFA came to the conclusion that no doping violation had been committed.

It’s the latest in a long line of triumphs across a range of sports for Morgan, who was the London-based company’s founding partner in 2013 after eight years working for a leading international law firm.

The University of Birmingham and Nottingham Law School graduate specialises in doping, corruption and selection disputes.

Last year Legal 500 - a guide to the best legal firms - stated that: “Mike Morgan has unrivalled knowledge of doping and corruption, constantly winning cases that seem unwinnable.”

Team Sky cyclist Sergio Henao Montoya was withdrawn from competition in April when the International Cycling Union (UCI) questioned some of the values in his Athlete Biological Passport. Morgan Sports Law took on the case and after providing an explanation the UCI announced in late May that no further action would be taken,

Like Sakho, Sri Lankan cricketer Kusal Perera also had a doping charge against him thrown out after being represented by Morgan.

Perera provided two out of competition samples last October which WADA claimed contained an anabolic steroid. However, following scrutiny of the laboratory’s findings, Morgan Sports Law noted certain inconsistencies and the International Cricket Council (ICC) concluded that the steroid reportedly found in the samples could have been produced naturally by the body and all charges were dropped.

Morgan helped American track cyclist Bobby Lea appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, who reduced his ban for a doping offence from 16 months to six months.

He has also won cases in recent months for Belarusian hammer thrower Vadim Devyatovskiy and Russian middle distance runner Tatyana Andrianova.

Back in 2011, Morgan represented Kolo Toure, who left Liverpool at the end of last season. Then on the books at Manchester City, the Ivorian defender was handed a six-month ban for failing a drugs test following the use of water tablets belonging to his wife. That was viewed as a victory of sorts considering that Toure could have been hit with a two-year suspension by the FA’s independent regulatory commission.

Now Sakho owes a debt of gratitude to Morgan as after three months in limbo the Frenchman can finally get back to doing what he loves best.