The FA of Wales, whom one would have hoped had more important issues to concern themselves, called in Jones to face their disciplinary committee in Cardiff over his post-match comments about referee Phil Dowd after the Championship game against Barnsley.
Football Factors, the specialist soccer detective firm defending Liverpool-born Jones, took the innovative route of contacting an expert phraseologist in Scouse speech based at Liverpool University who provided evidence that dodo — an extinct flightless bird originating in Mauritius — was also a non-insulting Scouse term of endearment.
Both sides agreed the dodo case was as dead as the bird before it was heard, but Jones was still fined £500 on a second charge of using offensive language towards a referee.
Daily Mail