Ashley Cole fined £90,000 for Twitter outburst directed at Football Association "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," read a statement on the FA's website. Cole's outburst two weeks ago was retweeted more than 19,000 times and provoked large condemnation from the footballing world. He apologised to FA chairman David Bernstein, who only two days earlier had revealed that the England squad had been spoken to about a new code of conduct.