Carroll at the centre of another storm?
Posted on November 7th, 2010 | 87 Comments |
It looks like Andy Carroll is hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons yet again, if the News of the World is to be believed.
The “newspaper” claims that Andy Carroll and Kevin Nolan went on a 14-hour drinking binge after the 5-1 defeat of Sunderland last weekend, but it doesn’t end there.
Under the headline ‘Toon stars’ cocaine and sex shame’, the paper goes on to tell the story of how Nolan and Carroll partied around the city of Newcastle, before ending up back at Nolan’s house with two girls for company, which Andy Carroll apparently had a threesome with. As for the cocaine bit, well that is just a bit of headline manipulation as neither player actually took the drug.
Now the News of the World is now pay-per-view, which means you have to pay to read it’s content, which means that I can’t really link you to the story as it will just ask for money basically. Instead I have copied and pasted the story below. I’ll let you read it and I’ll pin my thoughts onto the end of it.
Newcastle stars Andy Carroll and Kevin Nolan went on a 14-hour bender that ended in a drug-fuelled orgy.
Bad boy Carroll yelled “Ride me! Ride me!” as he romped with a blonde and a brunette in a catsuit in the bedroom of club skipper Nolan – who is supposed to be taming the wayward England prospect.
And as the orgy went into full swing at Nolan’s luxury home, downstairs cocaine – used by the girls they had picked up on a crawl of Newcastle’s clubs – lay scattered across a table.
Neither player is believed to have snorted the drug – but our revelations today take football to new depths of shame.
Because only three weeks ago a court entrusted Nolan – a married family man – to keep an eye on wayward Carroll while he was on bail accused of attacking his ex-girlfriend.
A source said: “I can’t believe Nolan was so stupid to get dragged into Carroll’s mess.”
The 28-year-old Liverpudlian took Carroll, 21, into his home, bragging that he could “control” him. But things soon went badly wrong.
First his wife Hayley – furious at having the player imposed on her as a lodger and upset by anti-Carroll graffiti scrawled on her garage door – stormed off to her family back in Liverpool with their two children.
Then Newcastle thrashed local derby rivals Sunderland 5-1 last weekend – with Nolan scoring a hat trick. The scene was set for a debauched “celebration” that would continue through the night.
At about 6pm Nolan and Carroll started boozing at the Diamond Inn bar not far from the skipper’s luxury home in the Ponteland area of Northumberland.
They were accompanied by a pal of Nolan’s from Liverpool called Carl who had come up to watch the game. There was also a “close protection officer” hired to provide security for controversial Carroll after his £70,000 Range Rover was torched while parked on Nolan’s drive weeks ago.
After a few warm-up drinks, the group took a cab for the eight mile ride into the centre of Newcastle.
Their first stop was the city’s Floritas Bar near Central Station where they boozed for two hours among celebrating fans before moving on to the Baby Lynch bar and then the Tup Tup Palace nightclub.
Here they partied until 3am and got chatting to three girls, aged around 20, from the South Shields area. One dressed provocatively in an all-black cat suit.
Our source said: “Everyone out in Newcastle that night was jubilant, the team had beaten Sunderland and the players were heroes.
“Nolan had scored three goals so he was obviously over the moon and the girls were completely starstruck by him and Carroll. They just didn’t want to stop partying.”
So the group moved on to Aspers Casino in Newcastle’s Gate Complex where they stayed until 5.45am before having breakfast at a McDonalds and then all going back to Nolan’s home.
Here exhausted Carl and the protection officer fell asleep on sofas while Carroll and Nolan partied on until dawn with the three girls in Nolan’s luxury cinema room. At around 7.15am, Carroll tapped one of the girls – a blonde in a Hell’s Angels top – on the shoulder and beckoned her upstairs.
As she followed him, she said: “I hope you’re not going to treat us like the other girls.”
Nolan was heard saying; “I can’t believe Carroll has brought these girls back to my house.”
Just 15 minutes later, the catsuit girl went up to join the pair in the bedroom. The striker could then be heard yelling: “Ride me! Ride me.”
While his teammate romped upstairs Nolan was left downstairs with the third girl.
In the cinema room, cocaine had been left strewn across a table along with one of the girl’s leather gloves. Our source says: “There was a bottle on the bar in the cinema room and there was cocaine poured on the table from a bag.
“They had been up all night but they were in no mood to stop partying. Even in his room Carroll could be heard having a wild time with the girls.”
Nolan’s pal Carl woke up at one point and went upstairs before coming back down again five minutes later and falling back to sleep.
At 9.45am one of the girls yelled that it was time to order a cab, but wary Carroll – still bedding the catsuit girl – yelled: “No cabs at this house.” Carl, now awake, volunteered to drive them all home.
As the girls were leaving, the catsuit beauty collected the cocaine and said as she left: “I’m not a slut you know, I’ve got a boyfriend.” She then shouted to one of the other girls: “Have you been snorting again?”
After a couple of hours sleep Carroll was up and out at midday on Monday to visit his new house in the Dinnington area of Ponteland.
Nolan’s wife was due home that evening – but he didn’t get up until 6pm, three hours before she arrived.
That afternoon flowers were delivered to their £1million home for her. But it will take more than that to hide his guilt. Loyal Hayley’s first blow came on October 18 when Carroll appeared at Hexham Magistrates Court charged with assaulting his ex-girlfriend. He was bailed on condition that he lived with Nolan.
Two days later, Carroll’s Range Rover was torched while parked in the driveway at the Nolans’ home. Graffiti targeted at Carroll was daubed on the garage door.
Nine days before the North East derby Hayley took the children to Liverpool. Six days before the big game, Carroll was in court again and ordered to pay a total of £5,000 in fines, compensation and legal costs after admitting assaulting a man by throwing a pint glass at him outside a local nightclub.
Our source said last night: “Hayley was angry at Carroll coming to live with them. Then came the firebomb attack while she and the kids were in the house. Now there’s the sex party.
“All the reports that Carroll has been tamed by Nolan and he has become part of the family are nonsense. I can’t believe he has been stupid enough to get dragged into Carroll’s mess.”
Both players will face the wrath of Newcastle boss Chris Hughton before today’s crucial clash at Arsenal. Hughton trusted his skipper to take Carroll – tipped to be in the next England squad – under his wing and keep him out of trouble.
Nolan even said the striker had become part of the family at the home he shares with Hayley and their children aged four and ten months. He claimed Carroll had read bedtime stories to the youngsters and added: “What I’ve learnt is that he’s always asleep at the wrong time, so I’ve been getting him to bed early. Andy knows he’s got to be in for 10.30, and then in bed for 11.”
Nolan also praised his wife of two years, a former nurse at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital, for coping with the terrifying arson attack. In an interview with BBC’s Football Focus, he said: “My wife’s been fantastic, to be honest, with what’s happened.”
A source told us: “Nolan felt he had been pressured into taking on Carroll but he was determined to make it work.
“Yet there was tension from the start and Hayley feared it was not a good idea to having him around.
“And when she went away it meant Carroll had more opportunities to lead Nolan astray.”
A spokesman for the players said: “Both deny any knowledge of drugs being brought into the property. They abhor the use of drugs and the people that deal them. They are considering reporting the matter to the police.”
Well, now for my thoughts…..
First off, it sounds like a cracking party, and I wish I was there. There headline is misleading aswell as neither player took any drugs. Then there is the part about it being an orgy. Really? I’ve had a threesome before, but it certainly wasn’t what I would call an orgy. Realistically, the story should be ‘Players go for drink after derby day win’ or ‘Single man has threesome’, but that wouldn’t sell papers would it?
There is an awful lot of detail in this article, such as times and the like, but where have they come from? Just who is this source? Now if one person was the security guy, who would have had to sign privacy agreements no doubt, one person was Nolan’s mate and the other two were Nolan and Carroll themselves, it begs the question of just who this mystery fifth person is?
It could be one of the girls themselves, but if you think about it a bit deeper, how can it be? The stunning detail with regards to times and movements tell us of events that happened after the girls disappeared, which rules them out, and given the fact that there are quotes and allsorts you would have to think that it must have been someone who was in the house, surely?
I, personally, smell a rat. I’ll wait and see what the players have to say about this, but if there is no truth in it then I would seek action against the papers if I was them. It wouldn’t be the first time the NOTW have been held to account and been found guilty of making libellous remarks would it?
Time will tell.
Sue them !!!!!!!!
Tthat’s the bottom line
Great article Toonsy sum it up perfectly.
You make it clear how f*cking sh*t this sh*t story is.
I swear a lot when it come to the press and these kind of thing that they made up.
I’m just freaking mad !!!!