Mike Ashley: Bringing dignity and pride back to Newcastle United?
Posted on September 4th, 2011 | 38 Comments |
According to the newspaper, Ashley was pictured at a birthday celebration for a Sports Direct employee at a Chinese restaurant near the company’s headqurters in Mansfield. It reported that:
“As he undressed, workers yelled “More” and “Get ’em off Mikey boy.”
Then quoting from a reveller at the Ash bash, it read:
“Mike was in great form. The DJ started playing that song and all the blokes were egged on by the girls.
“Mike was one of the first up, to applause and cheers. He didn’t think twice about stripping, especially as he’d sunk a few pints.
“Mike gets stick from some people but he’s a brilliant boss.”
I don’t really do moral indignation, especially after some of the things I’ve done in the past. Like most Geordies, I wouldn’t say that I am lacking in a sense of humour either. However, as with some previous incidents involving Mike Ashley, as well as his predecessor, Freddy Shepherd, some fans might question if this is seemly behaviour for the owner of a proud local institution, and a Premier League football club which is in the world spotlight.
I wondered to myself that if this was a player at the club and similar images were revealed in the media, would that player be disciplined and fined for bringing the club’s name into disrepute? I seem to recall Alan Pardew leading a probe into the behaviour of Leon Best and Stephen Ireland for merely lifting their T-Shirts for a moment at a Newcastle nightclub called the “Tup Tup Palace”, though they were injured, sober and not involved in any games at the time. The image of the players exposing their well chiselled torsos along with reserve player, Stephen Folan, was merely published on a Facebook page rather than splahed across a national newspaper.
Divven’t have nightmares!
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I’m going to be sick. :C