Be Careful What You Wish For

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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. His salary at talkSPORT isn't known to the public but one would assume the radio station are paying one of their most prominent voices a sizable sum of money each year. Hearn: "You are the king of hypocrisy, you talk like you are some kind of business expert. We know how that went for you." I am a very rich man without any money and I have spent the last two years dealing with banks and sorting out my other investments.

You’ve got a property developer in the mix, you’ve got people who own the football club who have a slightly inflated idea of what it’s worth." Simon Jordan was born on September 24, 1967 (age 55 years) in Thornton, United Kingdom. His father is Peter Jordan. Simon Jordan was an accomplished young footballer signing schoolboy forms with both Chelsea and Crystal Palace. 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.” All this happened whilst he was at Purley High School for Boys in Old Coulsdon. His father Peter Jordan used to play for Crystal Palace F.C., although never appeared for the first team. Forex For Beginners: The Best 10 Advice For Learning How To Make Money With Online Forex Trading And Create A Passive Income Working From Home 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.

During his tenure, Palace gained promotion from the second tier to the illustrious Premier League in 2004, although they did suffer immediate relegation. The book is interesting because it opens up some of the behind the scenes machinations of the game, which it has to be said are far from appealing. Just like Ian Ridley's Floodlit Dreams, about that author's time as owner of Weymouth FC, Jordan's offering does not make you want to own a club yourself with all the politics, pettiness and egos that go with it.

I really enjoyed reading this book and with Simon honest open account of his early success and sad encounters of the selfishness of the majority of people connected within football. Listen to this explosive insight into the previously unseen world of football club ownership by one of the game's most recognisable figures.

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. In 2008, Jordan produced the film version of Telstar based on the play about the life of record producer Joe Meek. The film followed Jordan’s production of the play of the same title at London’s New Ambassadors Theatre. The film was solely funded by Jordan and featured Kevin Spacey, James Corden, and JJ Feild. It was reasonably well-received by critics opening on 45 screens in the UK and selling releases in 32 countries Author

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. From owning a Premier League football club to being a recognised voice on a national radio station, Simon Jordan has had quite the life... Simon Jordan is a widely known figure in sports media. He co-presents the weekday mid-morning programme branded White and Jordan on talkSPORT. My only criticism is that it ends most abruptly with his parting with Crystal Palace. At the beginning of the book it is autobiographical, birth, childhood, parents, friends, education etc. Then it is almost all about the trials and tribulations of owning a football club and is fascinating and truly enlightening. But I had hoped that with an audiobook being released in 2022 he could have added to the end a succinct description of his life after Crystal Palace.

Simon Jordan Net Worth

I'm spending a bit of time making sure that I understand the boxing world and that I align myself with the right people. I either buy somebody's business, I invest in somebody's business, or I start my own business. DPMM FC play in the Singapore Premier League and are the current champions, having won their first ever title when Kean was manager. Aside from appearances in football-related programs, Jordan’s first major TV appearance was in early 2007, appearing in Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway for ITV along with fellow millionaires the Ann Summers managing director Jacqueline Gold (daughter of West Ham chairman David Gold; entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne; MOBO Awards founder Kanya King; and former Conservative Member of Parliament-turned-novelist Jeffrey Archer). In May 2019, Jordan appeared on BBC’s Question Time.