Be Careful What You Wish For (Paperback)
Simon Jordan (author)
£12.99
Paperback
416 Pages /
Published: 09/05/2013
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Multimillionaire at 32
Youngest Premier League football club owner at 36
His club and a fortune lost at 42
Owning your childhood club - that's the dream, isn't it?
Simon Jordan 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 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.
A finalist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the British Sports Book Award for best autobiography
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780224091824
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 311 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 27 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"If you are a football fan and have not read this book, you are missing out" -- John Inverdale
"We all love the idea of owning our boyhood club but [Jordan's] memoir strips away the romance in a frequently hilarious, often alarming account" * The Times *
"No punches pulled" * Independent *
"A frank and brutal insight into why football and business don't mix" -- Theo Paphitis
"I couldn't help laughing... He can't half tell a story" * Evening Standard *
"We all love the idea of owning our boyhood club but [Jordan's] memoir strips away the romance in a frequently hilarious, often alarming account" * The Times *
"No punches pulled" * Independent *
"A frank and brutal insight into why football and business don't mix" -- Theo Paphitis
"I couldn't help laughing... He can't half tell a story" * Evening Standard *
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“for anyone interested in football”
while Simon Jordan can't resist those MIchael Winner esque comments about "my very good friend xxx", this is an eye opener into just how messed up the football business is. there were moments where I... More
“Be sure to read this!”
I knew before i read this that it would be direct and maybe blunt due to the forthright nature of Simon Jordan, but what blew me away was the state of the' football industry' and just how corrupt and... More
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