Cole to face huge fines for tweet

Ashley Cole is facing an unprecedented Twitter fine after being charged with misconduct by the FA over his foul-mouthed attack on them.

The Chelsea and England left-back was bracing himself for the double-whammy of seeing his wages docked by his club and being forced to top up the coffers of the game’s governing body, all for dubbing the latter a “bunch of twats”.

Being fined two weeks’ pay by the Blues would reportedly cost Cole around £240,000 (€296,500), with an FA punishment potentially pushing the total well over a quarter of a million pounds, thought to be the biggest ever in football for a social-media offence.