Exeter City's Danny Coles stripped of captaincy and placed on transfer list

Exeter City’s Danny Coles has been stripped of his captaincy, fined two weeks’ wages and placed on the transfer list following a disciplinary hearing into offensive Twitter comments.

Coles recently took to Twitter to criticise England’s Phil Jagielka during England's match, describing him as “a car crash waiting to happen”.

Twitter user Will Wenley jokingly replied: “So like you for Exeter”, which resulted in several offensive messages being tweeted from Coles' account.

Coles has since apologised to the 14-year-old fan and deleted his Twitter account.

A statement from Exeter City Football Club said: “Following a disciplinary hearing on Monday 7 July regarding his recent comments on social media, Danny Coles has been removed from his position as club captain and has been placed on the transfer list.  He has also been fined two weeks' wages.

“Exeter City Football Club will not tolerate abuse of anyone, in whatever form, and would like to extend its apologies to all those who were offended by Danny Coles' behaviour on Twitter.

“At the hearing, Danny Coles again apologised for any offence taken by his comments and has written a letter of apology to the young person concerned.  Exeter City Football Club and Danny Coles will now be focusing on pre-season training and the year ahead and will make no further comment on the matter.”