Cole could be the best defender on a soccer field, but in a real world, he has to learn a lot about how to control the flowing words on a social platform. Recently, a tweet by him created a controversy where he gave his immature views about recent John Terry’s case and fired a vulgar tweet about FA. Though, he immediately realized his fault and apologized via another tweet, but damaged has already been done for him, and now, he has to face FA’s disciplinary committee to explain his view points. Notably, a long standing case against John Terry has just been completed few days back where he was found guilty of using racial comments to other players by an independent commission of FA, and Cole tweeted about this committee and said some rude words. FA took this matter seriously and issued a statement that reads as, “Ashley Cole has been charged by The FA in relation to a Twitter comment which was improper and/or brought the game into disrepute.”
Even though Cole deleted his massage as he comes to know about its effects on the world, and issued unconditional apology to FA. He later tried to point out the reasons for such a tweet by him. He said, “I had just finished training and saw the captions on the TV screens in the treatment rooms about what was said in the FA commission ruling about me. I was really upset and tweeted my feelings in the heat of the moment. I apologise unreservedly for my comment about the FA.”
Responding to this incident, former England soccer captain Alan Shearer told to BBC in an interview this weekend and said that Cole should be banned by FA from next world cup’s qualifiers. Knowingly, England has to play its world cup qualifying matches against San Marino and Poland next week, and if Cole plays in those matches, he can achieve a 100 caps milestone for England. But looking at the prevailing ambience, it is very much doubtful that FA will not take a serious action against him. Since, he raised some questions on the FA’s independent inquiry commission, he can be subjected to disciplinary codes of conduct which say no player can question the integrity, honesty, and competency of any inquiry commission set up by Football Association. It’s now less than 24 hours left when England takes on its world cup qualifier against San Marino, so a speedy action can cost Cole his 100th cap.