KRIS Boyd isn’t the only individual who should maybe sit back and think of events since his last league game.

Another one is Ashley Cole, who at Wembley last week was booed by a section of the crowd after his misplaced backpass led to the opposition scoring.

Many people, including his teammates and even representatives of the FA, criticised the supporters.

I would suggest it was a different sort of criticism to that which comes when the paying customer is not happy with a team performance or individual.

It was the first opportunity they had had en masse to let Mr Cole know that basically they don’t really like him as a person.

The reason for that was that in his autobiography, written by him at the very advanced again of 25, he said his car nearly swerved off the road when his agent rang him to say Arsenal had refused to give him the £60,000 a week he wanted and were only offering £55,000.

He thought this was an insult.

He surely should understand this, along with appearances in celebrity magazines for which he was paid huge amounts of money and publicity for extra marital affairs, doesn’t exactly endear him to people who have paid £50 or more for a seat in addition to travel expenses, programmes, drinks and snacks etc to watch him parade himself at Wembley.

It may have helped had he accompanied me to two functions recently – the AGM of Age Concern in Winchester and my annual visit to the Mountbatten Hospice.

On both occasions senior, and unfortunately on one occasion terminally ill, football supporters mentioned off the field situations involving players earning good money had turned them off going to the games.

I was hoping Wayne Bridge, who I know from experience is a pretty genuine sort of character, would have such an outstanding game with England that Mr Cole would have to fight to regain that full back position with both club and country.