Be Careful What You Wish For

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Palace put brakes on Bruce". BBC Sport. 22 November 2001. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012 . Retrieved 23 October 2013. New wage delay for Palace players". BBC Sport. 2 January 2010. Archived from the original on 20 February 2011 . Retrieved 23 October 2013. CHAIRMAN'S THOUGHTS". CPFC.CO.UK. 11 October 2006. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012 . Retrieved 23 October 2013. Best football related book I’ve read. Very interesting to learn about what really happens in relation to transfers/players/chairmen/agents. Also the way he made his money, bought Palace and lost Palace.

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PDF / EPUB File Name: Be_Careful_What_You_Wish_For_-_Simon_Jordan.pdf, Be_Careful_What_You_Wish_For_-_Simon_Jordan.epub Unhappy Newcastle fans made their feelings towards Bruce known at Old Trafford - his ties to rival club Sunderland meant the coach got off on the wrong foot from the beginning Credit: GettyJordan, Simon (5 March 2006). "Guardian Unlimited Football: Columnists: Football: Just one thing wrong with tabloid stories – the facts". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 23 October 2013. Excellent book. You cannot help liking the bloke despite his arrogance. Never self-serving, he seems the kind of boss who drives you up the wall then buys you a drink if you survive. Football is a notoriously murky overpriced players, dodgy transfers, top-level corruption. Of course, the establishment always closes rank and those at the top stay quiet. But Jordan doesn't do quiet. And now, for the first time, he lifts the lid on what really goes on behind the scenes in football. With his year-round tan Jordan may be a 'marmite' figure, but love him or hate him his story is a revelation. Press Gazette: Max Clifford column". Press Gazette. 9 December 2005. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012 . Retrieved 23 October 2013.

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Whether it's goals as they go in or the latest from your club, stay up to date with everything going on in football with breaking news, live scores and in-app betting. Condition: New. The author made his fortune building a mobile phone company from scratch. When he sold it for GBP75 million, he bought Crystal Palace FC, the club he d supported as a boy, and led them into the Premier League. Ten years later Palace was in administration an.

Absolutely brilliant. A great read and informative inside view of owning a football club. The situation with managers spending the owners money is not surprising as instead of coaching the players they bought, they just wanted to buy their way out of problems instead of improving what they had already bought. As far as the old farts at the F A it was refreshing to hear from someone who ruffled a lot of feathers. Jordan also used the column to highlight the inconsistencies in the F.A. disciplinary panel. The same panel decided no disciplinary action would be taken against Paul Jewell, manager of Wigan, who had been charged on the basis of making comments similar to Jordan's. Jordan described the compliance process as being "based on mood", noting: "There's no frame of reference, no consistency – and, yes, it's personal. It amounts to me not being able to say a referee is incompetent while others can, using the same language." [20]

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We all love the idea of owning our boyhood club but [Jordan's] memoir strips away the romance in a frequently hilarious, often alarming account The Times The book was a critical and commercial success, it was published by Random House achieved an award at The British Sport books awards and was a finalist in the William Hill sports awards. He has described himself as being "good enough to be a professional, but mentally I wasn't interested. You often get players who have bags of talent, but not the required application. I was one of them." [2] His father Peter Jordan played for the Palace youth team, but never made an appearance for the first team. With Crystal Palace being promoted to the Premier League this season this was a well timed read and I have a certain amount of sympathy for Simon Jordan who only three seasons ago saw his ownership of the club end in administration. It must hurt a little to see those who followed him take them to the top flight. Fidler, Chris (14 April 2006). "Jordan: why I waved goodbye to football". South London Press. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013.They won’t like to hear that, they’ll want to know who said it - 'Allardyce? He was useless'. 'Souness? He was useless'. 'Pardew? He was useless too'. They’ll have a reason for it. If you have gone and watched your football team play against Crystal Palace in the last decade, chances are you would have chanted “Simon Jordan is a w*nker” alongside 10,000 or so of your fellow fans at the top of your lungs.