commission said there were discrepancies in
Cole's initial statement to FA interviewers of
what he heard Anton Ferdinand say to Terry
compared to a later statement.
Cole responded on his official Twitter account
saying: "Hahahahaa, well done #fa I lied did I,
#BUNCHOFT****"."
It was re-tweeted more than 19 thousand times
before he deleted it.
In a statement released this afternoon, Cole said:
"I had just finished training and saw the
captions on the TV screens in the treatment
rooms about what was said in the FA Commission
ruling about me.
"I was really upset and tweeted my feelings in
the heat of the moment. I apologise unreservedly
for my comment about the FA."
The FA has not yet commented on the tweet, but
Chelsea manager Roberto di Matteo said the
club would investigate: "We'll look at the tweet
and then we'll see. Apart from this, I don't think
the players are out of control."
Cole has backed up Terry's defence that the
racial slur was only used to counter an
accusation of racism he claimed Ferdinand was
levelling at him.
Cole told Terry's criminal trial in July that he
believed he heard Ferdinand use the word
"black" during the confrontation, something the
Queens Park Rangers defender denied saying.
Terry was cleared of the criminal charges but
found guilty by the FA and banned for four
matches.
But in its written judgment, the FA commission
said that Cole did not mention the word "black"
in the initial interview with them after the
October match.
Later, though, Chelsea club secretary David
Barnard wrote to the FA's disciplinary unit
asking for the word "black" to be added into
Cole's statement.
The three-man FA panel dedicated a section of
its judgment to "the 'evolution' of Ashley Cole's
evidence."
Cole could face FA disciplinary action less than
two weeks before he is expected to make his
100th England appearance.
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