Good little read. I personally am looking forward to reading his book. I don't. Lame him totally for what happened. He was naive, egotistical to an extent, but ultimately paid for his silly mistakes.

SUPPORTING PALACE SINCE 1986

Sad little man, perhaps listening to those with more experience he'd still be chairman.

SJ spoke a lot of sense. The article sums-up his tenure at Palace

Attachment: the sun SJ.pdf (0.00Kb)

cannot think of anything profound, witty, or pseudo-intellectual to put here. fck it!

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“The last time I went to Palace was Wolves away in the Cup. I have not been there since I left.

“Once it has gone, you suddenly find yourself not having anything to do on Saturdays. Once leaving, you are forgotten. I don’t dwell on Palace’s results. At 4.45pm I am not looking to see how they get on.

“I am not bitter. It is just not part of my life anymore. Everything I had at Palace has gone and I have nothing left to give. I don’t see any point to pay more interest in what is going on at Crystal Palace than I would compared to a theatre show I liked.

“The one thing I do miss is not having a voice in football.” (The Sun)
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ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME.
He loves a gamble and fancied being the success and nothing else.

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Jordan, perhaps understandably, remains annoyed that he was forced out of Palace which went into administration with debts of £30m, despite most of that sum being owed to him. He clearly has little time for current chairman Steve Parish. (The Sun)
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He was offered financial input from a few rich supporters. I know SW16 Girl knows more on this. I read it some time ago on the BBS. It may not have been at the valuation he always had in mind, but when you run a football club into the ground because you stretched its outgoings and drove its casual or non-season ticket fans away, why would they pay you what you want, just because it's what you've put in/lost?

With regard to his business ventures since mobile phones, none of them are money making businesses because they're things people dabble in or get 'roped' into investing in without doing their homework or knowing what they're doing. In property specifically he would've been better off just waiting for the next house market crash, not getting excited because there's Spanish property going up all over the place and he might miss out. Films? Silly. The restaurant business? A guaranteed way to lose money if you or the manager don't know what you're doing.

You can't take away his ambition for his local club but his manner with people in the game didn't do us many(any?) favours. I think the nature of mobile phones and his business model says a lot there. The industry has very poor customer services and his business model was alleged on here to be "Sell 'em cheap and tie 'em into very expensive longer-term contracts."

COYP

I've still got a huge amount of time & respect for the guy... he single-handedly saved us and kept us afloat for the best part of a decade.

When it comes to SJ, people seem to forget that everybody makes mistakes.

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cannot think of anything profound, witty, or pseudo-intellectual to put here. fck it!