This is the single most important thing on the page. The listing matches on the surname Cole, and English football has had several prominent ones. Of the items above, only about four are Ashley Cole: a 2005-07 England home shirt numbered 3, a 2008-09 Chelsea away shirt also numbered 3, and two Derby County items from 2018-19 numbered 26.
Twenty-nine are Newcastle United shirts numbered 9 from 1993-95 and 1994-95 — those are Andy Cole. Fifteen more are Manchester United shirts numbered 9, again Andy Cole, from 1995 through to 2001. Seven carry J. Cole and belong to Joe Cole, at Chelsea, Liverpool and England. The remainder includes American sports jerseys and a baseball tee that happen to contain the word.
Use the squad number. Ashley Cole wore 3, at Arsenal, at Chelsea and for England. Andy Cole wore 9. Joe Cole wore 10 at club level and 11 for England. Any shirt numbered 9 in this listing is not the left-back.
Ashley Cole made 156 league appearances for Arsenal between 1999 and 2006 and 229 for Chelsea from 2006 to 2014, and won 107 England caps. There is no Arsenal shirt of his in the listing at all, and only one Chelsea shirt. For a defender with that record, this is a very thin showing.
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