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Ashley Cole may be the next England player to retire

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  • #102
    Thrill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    The FA charges Chelsea's Ashley Cole with misconduct following Twitter comment


  • #103
    geeky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    So Rio Ferdinand is allowed call someone a 'choc ice' without consequences, but Ashley Cole reacts to being publicly accused of perjury and he's bringing the game into disrepute?

    Seriously, I know people love to hate him, but there are clear double standards here.


  • #104
    Blatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    geeky wrote: »
    So Rio Ferdinand is allowed call someone a 'choc ice' without consequences, but Ashley Cole reacts to being publicly accused of perjury and he's bringing the game into disrepute?

    Seriously, I know people love to hate him, but there are clear double standards here.

    Ferdinand was also charged over his tweet.

    And the FA didn't accuse Ashley Cole of perjury, they never said he lied.


  • #105
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    geeky wrote: »
    So Rio Ferdinand is allowed call someone a 'choc ice' without consequences,

    Stop lying.


  • #106
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    Blatter wrote: »
    Ferdinand was also charged over his tweet.

    And the FA didn't accuse Ashley Cole of perjury, they never said he lied.


    But they are going to look into his statement and how it came to be changed. If they feel he tried to mislead the tribunal he could get charged again...

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2213990/John-Terry-race-case-FA-investigate-Ashley-Coles-evidence-changed.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


  • #107
    Blatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    greendom wrote: »
    But they are going to look into his statement and how it came to be changed. If they feel he tried to mislead the tribunal he could get charged again...

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2213990/John-Terry-race-case-FA-investigate-Ashley-Coles-evidence-changed.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

    And rightly so imo.


  • #108
    Dots1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Dots1982


    geeky wrote: »
    So Rio Ferdinand is allowed call someone a 'choc ice' without consequences, but Ashley Cole reacts to being publicly accused of perjury and he's bringing the game into disrepute?

    Seriously, I know people love to hate him, but there are clear double standards here.

    Rio didn't call anyone a choc ice, he reacted to someone else calling AC a choc ice. He also was fined 45000 for it.


  • #109
    geeky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    Blatter wrote: »
    Ferdinand was also charged over his tweet.

    And the FA didn't accuse Ashley Cole of perjury, they never said he lied.

    Checked this out, apologies. I still think that's a pitiful punishment, with no acknowledgement of the racially-charged nature of his tweet.

    The judgement specifically called Cole an "unreliable" witness. You say tomato, I say tomato.


  • #110
    geeky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,380 ✭✭✭geeky


    Dots1982 wrote: »
    Rio didn't call anyone a choc ice, he reacted to someone else calling AC a choc ice. He also was fined 45000 for it.

    in a RT, with the words "Choc ice is classic hahaha".


  • #111
    Blatter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    geeky wrote: »
    Checked this out, apologies. I still think that's a pitiful punishment, with no acknowledgement of the racially-charged nature of his tweet.

    The judgement specifically called Cole an "unreliable" witness. You say tomato, I say tomato.

    Are you disagreeing with the FA, do you honestly think Cole was a reliable witness?

    He changed his statement, and this change just so happened to back Terry up. You'd have to have been born yesterday to find him anything other than unreliable.


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  • #112
    Crackle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Crackle


    Blatter wrote: »
    Are you disagreeing with the FA, do you honestly think Cole was a reliable witness?

    He changed his statement, and this change just so happened to back Terry up. You'd have to have been born yesterday to find him anything other than unreliable.
    He didn't change his statement, he clarified that the "b" word he claims he saw Ferdinand use could have been black or Bridge, as the first draft of his statement said Bridge only.

    Of course if the idiots taking the statement had recorded it, as they did with Terry, rather than taking notes, this whole mess would have been avoided.


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