Toon chief's £125k party

[Sonatine 11542]

Party Tyne ... Mike Ashley on booze binge

Toon chief's £125k party

 

SOZZLED Newcastle Utd owner Ashley goes on booze binge hours before Keegan quits

 

By EMILY SMITH

US Editor

and MIKE SULLIVAN

 

BOOZE-SWILLING Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley broke off from his monster champagne binge to tell one shocked reveller: “We’ve had a tiff with Keegan — but it will all be sorted out.”

 

The billionaire soccer tycoon slurred his promise as he ran up a £125,000 bar bill with his chums — spraying expensive bubbly in all directions during a three-hour orgy of debauchery.

 

But within hours Toon manager Kevin Keegan had quit in disgust as the trouble-dogged Tyneside giants spiralled towards meltdown.

 

Grog of the Tyne ... Ashley sips champagne in New York club

 

Ashley, 45, staged his bender at New York’s trendy Pink Elephant nightspot as officials at home held 11th-hour negotiations with disgruntled Keegan over his future as boss.

 

The owner and three other men, including one man named only as PK, downed an amazing 175 bottles of Cristal Champagne — the club’s entire stock.

 

They also necked 16 bottles of Dom Perignon, 29 of PJ Fleur Rose and three of Grey Goose Vodka.

 

Onlookers in the club on Wednesday night said Ashley was “slaughtered” and soaked from head to foot in Champagne as he sprayed £450 bottles of Cristal over his pals and handed out drinks and bottles to scantily-clad girls — getting some to pour booze into his mouth.

 

His antics will further infuriate horrified Newcastle fans who are calling for bosses to face the axe over the Keegan fiasco — and threatening to boycott their next home game.

 

The mammoth bar bill included a £30,000 tip to waitresses and a four-figure tip to security. Ashley started off by ordering ten bottles of Cristal. But as the booze flowed he ordered 100 MORE — at a cost of nearly £43,000.

 

One onlooker at the run-down looking club said: “Ashley was slaughtered — soaked from head to foot in Champagne and slurring his words.

 

“He kept spraying Champagne over himself and his friends, and he kept ordering more and more bottles of Cristal — handing them out randomly to his friends, girls standing nearby and nearby tables.

 

“When one clubber asked him, ‘Shouldn’t you be in Newcastle talking to Kevin Keegan?’ he slurred, ‘We’ve had a tiff with him, but it’ll all be sorted out.’”

 

The onlooker added: “It seemed a strange time to be out celebrating with his club in crisis — but Ashley was hellbent on having a wild time.

 

“He arrived at around midnight with a group of male and female pals and started ordering Cristal right next to the dancefloor. Before long he was out of control. The waitresses were amazed when he ordered 100 bottles of Cristal and proceeded to hand them out to clubbers and spray them over his friends.

 

“The whole club was abuzz over the ‘big-spending soccer guy’.

 

“He left just after three, staggering out with his arms around two much younger, pretty girls.”

 

A spokesman for the Pink Elephant confirmed Ashley was at the club on Wednesday. He said: “It was a great night. He spent a lot of money on Champagne.”

 

Bill ... shows $216,00 (£125,000) total cost

 

Sources close to Ashley said he took a private jet to New York on Wednesday as talks with ex-England boss Keegan were floundering. One friend said: “Mike was celebrating and pushing the boat out. There were a number of women at his table who were lapping it up and Mike loved being at the centre of it all.

 

“He was out to celebrate — and it can only have been to do with Keegan leaving Newcastle. You’d think he’d won the Lotto.”

 

Divorced dad-of-three Ashley, who has a £1.4billion fortune, built a sports retail business from nothing and paid £137million for The Magpies in May last year.

 

Big-spender Ashley likes to gamble too. In May he won £1.3million on a single spin of a roulette wheel at a London casino — staking £480,000 on lucky number 17.

 

But last year he was reported to have lost £129million on spread bets — the same years he scored £929million when he floated his Sports Direct retail chain.

 

He stayed in New York with Sir Alan Sugar’s pal Paul Kemsley before moving into a swish Manhattan hotel where he was holed up with friends yesterday.

 

From the Sun, so take it with a pinch of salt....

Edited September 6, 2008 by Sonatine

[Sicklee Sausage Roll 0]

He's a billionaire, so it's understandable that he lives an extravagant lifestyle. What I don't understand is how he needs an extra £50 a season off little old me.

Edited September 6, 2008 by Sicklee Sausage Roll

[Fop 1]

He's a billionaire, so it's understandable that he lives an extravagant lifestyle. What I don't understand is how he needs an extra £50 a season off little old me.

Look after the £50's and the £1,000,000's look after themselves.

[Asprilla 96]

Big-spender Ashley likes to gamble too. In May he won £1.3million on a single spin of a roulette wheel at a London casino — staking £480,000 on lucky number 17.

 

 

I'm no expert but I'm sure you get better odds than 3/1 on betting on a single number.

[peasepud 59]

Big-spender Ashley likes to gamble too. In May he won £1.3million on a single spin of a roulette wheel at a London casino — staking £480,000 on lucky number 17.

 

 

I'm no expert but I'm sure you get better odds than 3/1 on betting on a single number.

 

Yeah just a touch, 39/1 which would have worked out at either him staking £33,333 on the number or walking out with £18,720,000 sometimes they manage to amaze me with the absolute bollocks these papers write.

[Toonpack 9942]

Big-spender Ashley likes to gamble too. In May he won £1.3million on a single spin of a roulette wheel at a London casino — staking £480,000 on lucky number 17.

 

 

I'm no expert but I'm sure you get better odds than 3/1 on betting on a single number.

 

He did some special cover bet, where you chose your number but cover adjacent numbers with part of the stake, hence the 3/1 return on him "winning"

[TheMoog 0]

Let's face it, Fat Cunt is that much of an arsehole he probably bet on Keegan leaving the toon before all this happened just so that he could make some money out of it!

[Craig 6700]

Big-spender Ashley likes to gamble too. In May he won £1.3million on a single spin of a roulette wheel at a London casino — staking £480,000 on lucky number 17.

 

Suddenly becomes clear why he used to wear a shirt with 'Smith' on it...

[sandman02uk 0]

“When one clubber asked him, ‘Shouldn’t you be in Newcastle talking to Kevin Keegan?’ he slurred, ‘We’ve had a tiff with him, but it’ll all be sorted out.’”

 

Do these people seriously expect their readers to not sit there and think "why would some scantly clad lady in a night club in Manhattan, know or even care who Kevin Keegan is"

 

they just post bollocks for the sake of posting bollocks, its a nothing story

[ewerk 31199]

Let's face it, Fat Cunt is that much of an arsehole he probably bet on Keegan leaving the toon before all this happened just so that he could make some money out of it!

 

I'm sure he was very pissed off then when Curbishley beat him to it.