Rio tweet reignites race row: Ferdinand accused in row over Twitter attack on Cole.

Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand has re-ignited football’s racism row by appearing to endorse a Twitter insult aimed at Ashley Cole.

The defender responded to a tweet in which Chelsea star Cole was described as a ‘choc ice’ because of his role in the trial last week in which his club captain, John Terry, had been accused of racially abusing Ferdinand’s brother, QPR defender Anton.

Cole appeared as a witness for Terry’s defence and testified that his team-mate had not used racial language in his clash with Ferdinand as an insult, but was only repeating back the words after Ferdinand mistakenly believed he had used them.

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