Heart was in the right place with regards to palace, unfortunately he was a very young person who owned a football club a bit naive and opened his mouth when he should of kept it closed on certain aspects of the way football operates, He upset a lot of people and got him self a bit of a reputation which later cost him as people got there own back and the hierarchy in football close ranks.

I would urge everyone to read " Be Careful What You Wish For" by Simon Jordan. In that, he confesses that his mood swings affected some of his decision making. I believe that having his brother running the club was a mistake and that Steve Parrish has been a better owner as he has other people with genuine input, (instead of one man's impulsive decision making.) I was at the Valley in May 2005 and I think that Jordan came close to doing a great job. Financially, he is a good talker on TalkSport. CPFC is better off without him, but I still think that he did his best for us.

I agree with most of what he says on TalkSport. His reasoning always comes from a place of logic which he is able to articulate well when presenting his opinion. That said what he was saying today about safe standing was pretty ignorant. Was along the lines of Police shouldn't assume that trouble makers are going to congregate in standing areas and thus make it hard to police.

A Wheeler Dealer, a ducker and a diver. Made his money much like Goldberg in an emerging market where there was little or no regulation and scrutiny. The days when you could fly by the seat of your pants and for a while get away with it.

Tried to run the club by the same methods. Pay bills at the last minute and use 'innovative' finance that in the end bit him on the bum.

Loved the club but lied to the supporters. (Biggest fib being the day we all celebrated just how clever he was (n't) when he claimed to have bought the ground.

He made the decisions and despite his blaming many other factors took the club to the brink of extiction. Not only that but took down many small local suppliers as their bills went unpiad and even failed to pay charities like St John's Ambulance.

Now presents himself as the voice of football despite it clearly being a business he was no too good at.

But the roller coater was fun while it lasted eh?

The man has a real talent for being wrong.

Edited by Omph (17 Nov 2021 9.13am)

He was a breath of fresh air to begin with and in a time when millions still made a difference he was willing to spend and completely rebuild our team. He couldn't get his head around the way greed conquers all in the football industry where the likes of agents pretty much ran the game.
Largely down to his complaints and his shining a light on some practices that went on in football at that time change has come. For example, agents are now more regulated and have to be far more transparent (as do the clubs). This is largely (not all) down to Simon Jordan. But....he had a massive ego and he was desperate to look like the clever businessman you cant pull one over on. This was what really initiated the lies about buying the ground as well as other indescretions while chairman.
In the end it was the right time to go. He loved Palace and badly wanted success but in the end he ran out of both money and ideas. Having read his book I do sympathize with him in his claim that Parish tricked him out of the club. Its possible but then again Parish was clever enough to share the financial burden with others and was fortunate enough to be able to learn from Jordan's mistakes.
We can debate all night about the circumstances of his departure but I think the majority of Palace fans if offered the current regime or Simon Jordan on his own the overwhelming majority would want to stick with what we have

Ruddock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peter Taylor having previously saying that he did not rate him...then after the sacking being nasty on tv.

Red Jacket and blond hair to laugh at.

But, thanks for rescue.

No thanks for lies about owning the ground.

Parish & Co also purchased the ground and made sure that they took charges over it to secure the monies that they injected which made sure that their funds weren't at risk

I like him on Talksport but cant listen to it coz of the adverts. Respect him for saving the clube but he was naive and it showed. I completely understand his anger v CPFC10. They knew what they were doing, financially, and that is why he is bitter. He lost millions and they made millions.