U.K. billionaire Mike Ashley admitted for the first time that he helped bring down his long-term rival and former JD Sports chair Peter Cowgill. In a rare interview with the Financial Times, Ashley said that he was not “hiding from the fact” that he wanted to topple Cowgill. “He shouldn’t have been in the car park and maybe I shouldn’t have been in the bushes,” said Ashley, who later clarified that it was actually associates in his employ who recorded the video. “No one is perfect,” he added. Ashley still believes that Cowgill had it coming. “He knew what I was going to do: so then why did he do it?” You May Also Like According to the Financial times, Cowgill was covertly filmed in 2021 in the front seat of a black Mercedes talking to Footasylum chief executive Barry Bown. JD was at that time in the process of acquiring Footasylum, meaning the companies were barred from sharing commercially sensitive information.…