OK, but apart from raising money, organising dinners and events, getting directors and investors on board and dealing with the day-to-day running with the club, what's he ever really done for us?

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Got very involved in the Fan Zyiyi and Sun Jihai transfers in late nineties which was unique in its time,travelled to China and negotiated the deal on behalf of the club as well as the Marketing angle with the media.
Just a general ambassador for the Club working in loads of capacities I believe.

We love you,we love you,we love you and where you play we follow,we follow,we follow, cos we support the Palace, the Palace,the Palace and thats the way we like it,we like,we like it...WOAH,WOAH,WOAH!!!

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up...

First, Jordan is probably right. But doing what you can to have a secure job rather than blind loyalty to an owner is not necessarily a crime. Second, PA is a sales guy. Before becoming MD, he headed up Palaces corporate sales. The bottom line is, while he acts as COO and runs the day-to-day business, by trade he manages the sale of things that Palace sell to make money (corporate dinners, boxes, etc.) As COO, he's occasionally stepped up and got involved in the odd thing like transfers, too, though less so now.

Reality: he's basically an untrained ex-sportsman who's got a gregarious personality and is a born survivor who doesn't bring a hell of a lot to the party but doesn't offend anyone either and is a useful enough flunky to have around. As, after all these years, he knows how the club works (and probably which closets one or two skeletons are buried in), he endures. It's probably the exaggerated job title that irks people.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

Yes, he was. In Jordan's probably revisionist historical view, PA was assembling the takeover troops on one hand while being paid by SJ to be loyal to his ownership on the other but you could arguably interpret that as acting in the best interests of the club rather than the owner. Whatever.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

They sound as bad as each other then

Depends if you're a buyer or a seller to SJ or SP.

COYP