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LONDON (AFP) - England footballer Joe Cole received three letters containing death threats earlier this week while at Chelsea's training ground, Britain's Sun newspaper reported.
Cole, a 24-year-old midfielder, was "badly shaken" by the threats and took them seriously, but did not want to involve the police, the Sun quoted an unnamed team insider as saying.
Two messages warned he would have his throat cut while a third carried a sick drawing of a bloodspattered footballer, it said.
The hate-filled letters, each personally addressed to Cole, arrived over the course of two days at the Premiership champions' training ground in Cobham, Surrey, south-east England, the report continued.
One team insider was quoted as saying Cole was "badly shaken and went white" after getting the first threat on Wednesday, it added. Two more arrived on Thursday.
The first was sent with a football playing card. "It said in blood-red ink: 'You are going to have your legs broken, you're going to have your arms broken and you're going to have your throat cut," the mass-circulation daily added.
"Joe took it really seriously, but he did not want to call in the police so he ripped it up and threw it in the bin," the insider explained.
"Yesterday he got a card with message: 'Congratulations on your Retirement.' Inside they'd written a message saying. 'And your f.....funeral."
Earlier this month Cole reportedly fled an attack from a love rival for teenage topless model Keeley Hazell although the other man involved in that incident was cleared by Cole's representatives of being the mystery letter writer.
They believe the letters could have been sent by jealous fans of Hazell's or even by supporters of rival clubs.
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