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Former Premier League star Jermaine Pennant says he had numerous threesomes with Ashley Cole during their long-standing friendship.

The England football stars played at Arsenal together from 1999 until the mid noughties and their ball play was not just on the pitch, claims Pennant in his explosive new book.

The 35-year-old reveals that they high-fived each other behind the girls back in Cole's East London pad.

"The number of times Ashley Cole and I had threesomes! He lived in Canary Wharf and I forget the girl’s name now, but we brought her back and she was just up for it. We were high-fiving each other over her back. We had a little tea break and then went at it again.

"They just don’t care, he said.

Pennant detailed his womanizing past in his new autobiography, Mental: Bad Behaviour, Ugly Truths and the Beautiful Game.

He says that he and his mates never had an issue seducing girls in nightclubs because the girls wanted free drinks and they just wanted a "sh*g".

He explains: Basically, you and your mates will go out to a club, you get your own table, some bottles of beer brought over.

"Then there will be this flock of birds a few steps away. They don’t at first interact with you but you’re aware that they are there. Then there’s another group over the other side."

"Then, before you know it, there are 10 girls near your table. As the lads get more and more drinks in, the beer goggles come on and next thing you know you’re calling them over and saying: “Want a drink?”

"That’s what they want. They don’t want to be digging in their purses and buying their own drinks at the bar: they’d rather sit with footballers and get free drinks all night. They’re coming over to get drunk and have some fun.

"They know about you, your profile. They’re thinking: “It’d be nice to bag a footballer.”

"What they don’t yet know is that you are literally going to take them home or to a hotel, have sex, do all sorts, and probably won’t speak to them again. We don’t care, and the reality is that we just want a sh*g," he adds.

Mental: Bad Behaviour, Ugly Truths and the Beautiful Game by Jermaine Pennant is out on Thursday in hardback, published by John Blake.