Chelsea’s Ashley Cole was due to report for England duty on Monday amid calls for action over his outburst at the Football Association.
Cole tweeted after an FA commission queried his evidence while finding John Terry guilty of racial abuse.
“The FA can make a big statement by not fining but banning him on Friday versus San Marino,” former England captain Alan Shearer told the BBC.
However Cole responded by retweeting a message which criticised Shearer.
It read: “Alan Shearer says @TheRealAC3 needs to be banned for comments. I want his opinion on bans for kicking Neil Lennon in the head. #GlassHouses.”
He has since removed the retweet, which alluded to an incident in 1998 involving Shearer and Lennon, now manager of Celtic, when the pair were playing for Newcastle and Leicester respectively.
Then-England captain Shearer, now a BBC Match of the Day pundit, was found not guilty of deliberately kicking Lennon in the face.
Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo has confirmed Cole would be punished by his club for his comments on the social networking site in relation to the incident involving Terry and QPR defender Anton Ferdinand.
The FA must now decide whether to charge him for the original tweet, which he later deleted.
Left-back Cole’s tweet, on his official Twitter account, read: “Hahahahaa, well done #fa I lied did I, #BUNCHOFT***S”.
Speaking on Match of the Day, Shearer added: “We’ve seen players fined £50,000, £60,000, £70,000. That’s not a deterrent to them.
“Stopping them from playing football will be a deterrent. If they do it quickly – which they haven’t done in the case, which has taken 14 months – if they do it in four to five days, I think it puts a big statement out to the rest of the players.”
Cole is currently on 98 England caps and could reach the 100-mark if he appears in the forthcoming World Cup qualifiers against San Marino and Poland, however there have been reports he could be left out of the side on Friday.
Ashley Cole’s England career
2001: Makes debut against Albania
2002: Plays in first World Cup
2004: Named in All-Star squad for Euro 2004
2010: Named England Player of the Year
2011: Replaces Kenny Sansom as England’s most capped full-back (87)
2012: Becomes England’s most-capped tournament player after appearing against Ukraine (21)
2012: Misses penalty in Euro 2012 quarter-final loss to Italy
