Be Careful What You Wish For

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Michelle Dewberry finally leaves hospital with son after six week stay". hulldailymail.co.uk. 3 September 2020 . Retrieved 23 September 2020. Aside from appearances in football-related programmes, 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). CHAIRMAN'S THOUGHTS". CPFC.CO.UK. 11 October 2006. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012 . Retrieved 23 October 2013. Boss Dowie leaves post at Palace". BBC Sport. 22 May 2006. Archived from the original on 8 April 2008 . Retrieved 23 October 2013.

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In 2018, Jordan began a relationship with the sports broadcaster Talksport, featuring on shows with Danny Kelly and being nominated for sports pundit of the year in 2019. In 2020 after the success of his appearances, he joined Jim White on one of Talksports flagship shows. As of 2022, he often appears with Danny Murphy and Martin Keown.Long-term Palace lease revealed". BBC Sport. 17 April 2008. Archived from the original on 21 April 2008 . Retrieved 23 October 2013. Iain Dowie was appointed in December 2003 and the club went up the table from the relegation zone to win promotion in May 2004, beating West Ham United at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in the play-off final, fulfilling Jordan's promise of promotion within five years. However, the club remained in the Premier League for just one season before being narrowly relegated in 2005. In May 2006, having accepted Dowie and Jordan had differences but the same goal, Dowie left the club by mutual consent. [8] However, towards the end of the month Dowie joined Charlton Athletic as their new manager, prompting Jordan to issue a legal writ against him, [9] claiming Dowie had lied about his reasons for departure.

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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. In 2012 Jordan published an account of his life, an autobiography Be Careful What You Wish For. The book recounts his business success in the cellular phone business, but mostly focuses on his time as the youngest ever owner of a professional football club as chairman of Crystal Palace Football Club.

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Jordan serves as a refreshing antidote to the hypocrisy, greed, and self-serving agendas that pervade the modern game. 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.

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Jordan was an accomplished young footballer signing schoolboy forms with both Chelsea and Crystal Palace. An explosive insight into the previously unseen world of football club ownership by one of the game's most-recognisable figures 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.

Jordan will quit Palace next year". BBC Sport. 16 July 2008. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008 . Retrieved 23 October 2013. Breathtakingly honest, highly controversial, humorous and full of jaw-dropping anecdotes, Be Careful What You Wish For is far more than a football book. It is a social commentary on the culture of great wealth and ambition; a Shakespearean tragedy that exposes the dark side of chasing a dream. Jordan has stated "Steve Coppell and I just didn't get on" (i), and Coppell has stated "I didn't feel comfortable with Simon Jordan and neither did he with me."(ii) Jordan, Simon (7 August 2005). "Guardian Unlimited Football: Columnists: Increased control needed for agents". The Guardian. London . 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.