Ashley Cole could be the best defender for England and Chelsea, but he could not defend what he tweeted few days back about FA disciplinary penal investing a racial case against John Terry. Though, he apologized immediately but FA was in no mood to spare his brave effort to criticize soccer’s biggest governing body. Besides, FA has also defined a set of guidelines to be used by every footballer, official, club, or nation using a social media to express its views. In the latest case, Ashley Cole has been fined with €110,000 (£90,000 or $145,000) for his abusive tweets. Obviously, Cole is not happy with the way FA has handled this case, perhaps, he has a strong reason to believe that whatever he said in his defense is not taken care of by FA’s disciplinary penal. FA issued a statement for its decision and said, “Chelsea’s Ashley Cole has been fined £90,000 after he admitted an FA charge in relation to a Twitter comment which was improper and/or brought the game into disrepute. Cole, who had requested a non-personal hearing, was also warned as to his future conduct.”
Moreover, this judgment is more a massage for all soccer personalities and tells them how they should use a social media network, or how they should express their anger with the topmost soccer governing body. Despite his apology, FA did not spare him and took every corrective action to avoid any such incident again in future. Perhaps, this incident can set an example for every sport’s personal about how he should talk about his governing body. Interestingly, many are labeling Cole’s tweet as the costlier tweet ever in the history of Twitter! It is actually so, coz the size of fine can shock anybody who takes social massages for granted. Notably, three months back, Rio Ferdinand was also fined with £45,000 for re-tweeting a similar tweet.
Consequently, England’s new code of conducts have banned any discussion on social media about any match’s details in 24 hours before kicking off a match. If anyone violates this code, he may be subjected to similar disciplinary actions in future. These days, tweeter or Facebook has become the biggest online community where players directly express their aggressions without any censorship; hence FA has taken this step to eradicate this forever. It would be interesting to see, if FA succeeds in its efforts.