The Chelsea and England left-back was bracing himself for the twin setbacks of having his wages docked by his club along with an FA fine for dubbing the latter a "bunch of t***s". Being docked two weeks' pay by Chelsea would cost Cole around £240,000, with an FA punishment potentially pushing the total over a quarter of a million pounds, thought to be the biggest in football for a social-media offence. Cole tweeted following team mate John Terry's guilty verdict in his FA racist abuse case. Cole issued an unreserved apology for the tweet on Friday afternoon, but not before it had been retweeted more than 19,000 times.