He is seen as the type of player who gives footballers a bad name. Someone who typifies all the perceived negatives about the modern-day player.
Ashley Cole is the snarling face of the beautiful game, someone who disputes every decision made by a referee or an assistant, someone who seems to thrive on his unpopularity.
Greedy, unfaithful, ungrateful with a grudge against the media to the extent he has not spoken to the written press for seven years.
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