Former Chelsea and England captain John Terry has hit out at a statement from Carlton Cole about an old racism row.
Terry was accused of racially abusing Anton Ferdinand in 2011 during a Chelsea v QPR Premier League game.
Terry lost the England captaincy and received a four match ban in the Premier League due to the incident.
Then West Ham striker Cole claims in an interview with StoppageTime TV that Terry admitted to him that he used racist language when referring to Ferdinand.
According to Cole, Terry said: "It was a moment of madness, I don't know why I did that."
A statement from Terry's lawyers said: "John Terry refutes in the strongest possible terms the allegations that are made against him by Carlton Cole.
"They are false and never happened and Mr Terry has previously been cleared of these allegations in an English court of law.
"Never before has Carlton Cole mentioned this to Mr Terry or raised any issue of this type with him, the FA or the police. The reason for that is because the words were not said."
