Be Careful What You Wish For

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Sadly Simon needed to be billionaire not a millionaire which again is very sad when you consider football needs to be run as a business and not a play thing. But that hope didn't last long as Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice on his long-awaited return to Old Trafford Credit: getty

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Press Gazette: Max Clifford column". Press Gazette. 9 December 2005. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012 . Retrieved 23 October 2013. Ten years later Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on being the owner of a football club and how the game really works. Hopes and dreams sit alongside greed, self-interest, dodgy transfers, boardroom fights and dressing room dressing downs. Throughout no one is spared, least of all Jordan himself. Fidler, Chris (14 April 2006). "Jordan: why I waved goodbye to football". South London Press. Archived from the original on 24 October 2013. Crystal Palace now, 10 years on, sit 11th in the Premier League table...& are owned, managed & supported by locals....and you can't say that about any other club in the world, can you? Simon Jordan set the benchmark for aspiring football clubs to take on the giants in their flashy theatres of dreams...& ultimately failed.But he went down with a bang!! Hills, David (25 September 2005). "Guardian Unlimited Football: News: Football: Observer's Jordan faces FA charge". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 23 October 2013.His passion for Crystal Palace shines through, yet he certainly seemed to be saddled with a thankless task, fraught with obstacles, arguments, and disputes at every turn. Ten years later, Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on being the owner of a football club and how the game really works. Hopes and dreams sit alongside greed, self-interest, dodgy transfers, boardroom fights and dressing room dressing downs. Throughout no one is spared, least of all Jordan himself. Mixed feelings about this book.Some interesting I insights into football club ownership and the whole culture of football especially the current unhealthy grip of agents..I did not however warm to the author,something almost Trumpian in his appointment and then dismissal of managers and others that he really knew were not suitable from the outset

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ii) Dyer, Ken (3 September 2001). "Steve and Ron's chemistry is perfect formula". Evening Standard. Jordan stopped writing for The Observer in the 2006–07 season. He started writing again with his own column entitled "Simon Jordan’s Big opinion" in The Sun from August 2019 to November 2020. 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.In the late 1980s or early 1990s he was invited by a friend, James Wright, to join him in his business, Wright Connections, selling mobile phones via adverts placed in Loot and Exchange and Mart. Jordan and Wright rented an office from Delta 5, another mobile phone dealer, and the business lasted for a short time before changing its name to Corporate Cellular Ltd (CCL). This business was not considered to be a great success either and Jordan left in the early 1990s.

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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. In 2006 Jordan part funded and executively produced Sweeney Todd, a film featuring Ray Winstone and Tom Hardy.Jordan, Simon. "Guardian Unlimited Football: Columnists: Football: So who is Barry Bright?". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 23 October 2013. .

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But in truth this gripped me all the way and wouldn’t allow me to ever let distractions interfere and accept missing a second of SJ’s accounts. Addeddate 2021-11-23 15:54:43 Identifier 99-f-69259-f-023-4377-b-945-448-af-19-bf-192 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4 Year i) Jordan, Simon (4 September 2005). "Trevor just didn't have the whoooar factor". The Observer. London. Simon Jordan: Buy a football club and lose a fortune – the Jordan way". The Independent. 2 June 2012. Jordan, Simon (16 April 2006). "Simon Jordan: gambling is not a problem". The Guardian . Retrieved 7 June 2021.What follows is a rollercoaster story of the inner workings of owning a football a football club, highs and lows, a refreshingly honest and throughly entertaining and informative account. 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. Jordan was an accomplished young footballer signing schoolboy forms with both Chelsea and Crystal Palace.