LONDON: Arsenal’s England defender Ashley Cole was fined £2,000 and banned for two matches by the Football Association (FA) on Tuesday after admitting he verbally abused a referee.
The FA said: “Cole had pleaded guilty to the charge of abusive and/or insulting words to a match official (breach of FA Rule E2) in an incident following the Southampton-Arsenal match on 23rd November 2002.”
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