surrey jim
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Anyone read his article in NOTW today. he explained why leaving Palace and why he wants out of football altoghther. made some good points on football in general at the moment,
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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Jordan is me favourite football writer by a long way. Only one with the balls to call Waynetta Rooney 'a plain little girl from Liverpool'
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He makes some good points, but the reality is nothing will change, if anything it will get worse. 
surrey jim
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He makes some good points, but the reality is nothing will change, if anything it will get worse.
that was his main point! that noone will change the game or setup
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Has Jordan written a book on his time in football yet? Reckon it would be a CRACKING read 
bhaexpress
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Jordon might be chairman of a bad team but his sentiments are spot on, hope he changes his mind as football needs people like him not the spineless wankers that are screwing up the game.
"No owner in his right mind would invite an agent into his academy any more than a brothel owner would let a syphilitic nutter into his whorehouse"
Looks like SJ has his next business venture sorted then!
Looks like SJ has his next business venture sorted then!
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Ambrose-ia
I didn't know he was chairman of a team. You learn something new every day! SJ is totally spot on as usual
Johnny Crumplin Football
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Alright Simon Jordan is Palace etc and the NOTW hack that wrote this probably pulled a few quotes out of his arse but I can see where he is coming from:
SIMON JORDAN today delivers the most damning verdict ever on the crumbling state of the beautiful game.
In an explosive, no-holds barred exclusive interview, the controversial Crystal Palace chairman fires both barrels at Cristiano Ronaldo, Frank Lampard, Coleen Rooney, Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini, greedy agents and even long-suffering football fans.
Jordan has finally decided to walk out on football as the game descends into a bickering war over players’ inflated contracts, lack of loyalty, greed, corruption and arrogance — culminating in Manchester United superstar Ronaldo’s absurd claim that he is being treated 'like a slave'.
As the angry 40-year-old multi-millionaire businessman prepared to sell his Championship club to the highest bidder, he:
BRANDED Ronaldo a 'silly little boy' who should be made to do as he’s told.
INSISTED Chelsea star Lampard is not worth £150,000 a week.
ACCUSED FIFA president Sepp Blatter of being a 'bloody idiot'.
BLASTED UEFA chief Michel Platini’s incredible arrogance.
SLAUGHTERED Wayne Rooney’s showbiz WAG Coleen McLoughlin’s image as a role model, claiming she is just a plain little girl from Liverpool.
VILIFIED soccer agents as being 'nasty, evil, pointless scum'.
“The reality is that football is a bulls*** world - an insidious, insipid, egotistical, greedy, self-motivated game,” stormed Jordan.
“And the problem is that NOBODY is going to change that.
Wrong
“You read on the front pages of newspapers about people unable to sell their homes and heading for the bread line - but you read on the back pages about footballers turning down £150,000-a-week offers!
“If you get 60,000 people singing your name every week, you lose touch with reality.
Footballers live on an island called ‘Football World’ where everything they do is right and everything that is said about them is wrong.”
Ronaldo has infuriated Jordan with his constant hankering to quit Old Trafford and sign for Real Madrid — despite still having four years left on his Old Trafford contract.
And Jordan declared: “The Ronaldo thing is about the fact he wants to go to Spain.
“But I’m sorry, little boy, you signed a five-year contract and you’re going to do as you’re told.
“He can sulk and pout and sit there with his earplugs in, looking pretty, for as long as he wants.
“But if he’s not playing first team football for United, he’s going nowhere - so he’ll pretty soon come in line, get back in the team and will be doing as he’s told.”
FIFA chief Blatter - the most powerful football man on the planet — infuriated Old Trafford boss Sir Alex Ferguson by insisting United were treating £120,000-a-week Ronaldo like a slave, an incredible comment which the Portuguese winker agreed with.
And Jordan added: “One thing that should change is the football establishment’s attitude towards footballers.
Arrogant
“If Sepp Blatter said what he said then he’s a bloody fool.”
Jordan is also disgusted that Chelsea’s England midfield star Lampard, 30, is continuing to hold out for a mammoth £150,000-a-week deal at Chelsea.
“There is not a footballer or any kind of sportsman on the planet worth £150,000-a-week,” he said. “I can tell you a few surgeons who are - but no sportsman.
“The more I watch this ‘Planet Football’ and see the back pages dominate the front pages and people like Coleen McLoughlin - who is just a plain little girl from Liverpool - set up as role models, I think to myself: ‘What the hell is going on?’
“Michel Platini is going in front of the European Union to identify six sports which should have a special exclusion from human rights.
“But I look at it as another example of how arrogant football is - that it thinks it is above everything else.
“It thinks it’s above every other worker and industry in the world - because it’s football.
“When I leave football you will never see me involved in another club.
Nutter
“The moment the door of Selhurst Park hits me on the a***, I will not be coming back.”
Jordan admits being disillusioned with the game even before he was pushed over the edge by an FA tribunal’s decision to award Palace just £700,000 compensation for youth player John Bostock following his controversial transfer to Tottenham last month.
Jordan has become one of the most outspoken personalities in football since buying Palace out of administration eight years ago at the age of 32, which made him the youngest chairman in the Football League.
He made around £40m after selling his firm The Pocket Phone Shop to the Carphone Warehouse and immediately pledged to have the South London club back in the Premier League within five years.
But it did not take long for him to grow tired of the way football is run.
He directed plenty of his venom at players’ agents, who he believes are responsible for many of the ills of the modern game.
With Jordan now spending most of his time at his villa in Marbella, the Palace chairman leaves all transfer negotiations to chief executive Phil Alexander and director Kevin Watts.
“Agents are nasty scum,” he said. “They’re evil and divisive and pointless.
“They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.
“In my opinion, no owner in their right mind would willingly invite an average agent into his academy, any more than a brothel owner would let a syphilitic nutter into his whorehouse.
“If an agent does a good job for me then I will pay him - but I don’t deal with players’ agents or agents employed by other clubs.”
But, amazingly, Jordan also took a pop at the long-suffering fans who have to dip further into their deep pockets every time a player agrees a new contract.
He insists the fans’ expectations increase the pressure on clubs to go after the best players and that in turn, hands all the power to the men in the dressing room.
“The public keep on chanting players’ names and wanting better players,” he said.
“The only time they’ve had enough is when the players play badly.
“Fans wonder why they have to pay £50 for a kit for their son - but the price is that because they’ve been clamouring for their better players.”
SIMON JORDAN today delivers the most damning verdict ever on the crumbling state of the beautiful game.
In an explosive, no-holds barred exclusive interview, the controversial Crystal Palace chairman fires both barrels at Cristiano Ronaldo, Frank Lampard, Coleen Rooney, Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini, greedy agents and even long-suffering football fans.
Jordan has finally decided to walk out on football as the game descends into a bickering war over players’ inflated contracts, lack of loyalty, greed, corruption and arrogance — culminating in Manchester United superstar Ronaldo’s absurd claim that he is being treated 'like a slave'.
As the angry 40-year-old multi-millionaire businessman prepared to sell his Championship club to the highest bidder, he:
BRANDED Ronaldo a 'silly little boy' who should be made to do as he’s told.
INSISTED Chelsea star Lampard is not worth £150,000 a week.
ACCUSED FIFA president Sepp Blatter of being a 'bloody idiot'.
BLASTED UEFA chief Michel Platini’s incredible arrogance.
SLAUGHTERED Wayne Rooney’s showbiz WAG Coleen McLoughlin’s image as a role model, claiming she is just a plain little girl from Liverpool.
VILIFIED soccer agents as being 'nasty, evil, pointless scum'.
“The reality is that football is a bulls*** world - an insidious, insipid, egotistical, greedy, self-motivated game,” stormed Jordan.
“And the problem is that NOBODY is going to change that.
Wrong
“You read on the front pages of newspapers about people unable to sell their homes and heading for the bread line - but you read on the back pages about footballers turning down £150,000-a-week offers!
“If you get 60,000 people singing your name every week, you lose touch with reality.
Footballers live on an island called ‘Football World’ where everything they do is right and everything that is said about them is wrong.”
Ronaldo has infuriated Jordan with his constant hankering to quit Old Trafford and sign for Real Madrid — despite still having four years left on his Old Trafford contract.
And Jordan declared: “The Ronaldo thing is about the fact he wants to go to Spain.
“But I’m sorry, little boy, you signed a five-year contract and you’re going to do as you’re told.
“He can sulk and pout and sit there with his earplugs in, looking pretty, for as long as he wants.
“But if he’s not playing first team football for United, he’s going nowhere - so he’ll pretty soon come in line, get back in the team and will be doing as he’s told.”
FIFA chief Blatter - the most powerful football man on the planet — infuriated Old Trafford boss Sir Alex Ferguson by insisting United were treating £120,000-a-week Ronaldo like a slave, an incredible comment which the Portuguese winker agreed with.
And Jordan added: “One thing that should change is the football establishment’s attitude towards footballers.
Arrogant
“If Sepp Blatter said what he said then he’s a bloody fool.”
Jordan is also disgusted that Chelsea’s England midfield star Lampard, 30, is continuing to hold out for a mammoth £150,000-a-week deal at Chelsea.
“There is not a footballer or any kind of sportsman on the planet worth £150,000-a-week,” he said. “I can tell you a few surgeons who are - but no sportsman.
“The more I watch this ‘Planet Football’ and see the back pages dominate the front pages and people like Coleen McLoughlin - who is just a plain little girl from Liverpool - set up as role models, I think to myself: ‘What the hell is going on?’
“Michel Platini is going in front of the European Union to identify six sports which should have a special exclusion from human rights.
“But I look at it as another example of how arrogant football is - that it thinks it is above everything else.
“It thinks it’s above every other worker and industry in the world - because it’s football.
“When I leave football you will never see me involved in another club.
Nutter
“The moment the door of Selhurst Park hits me on the a***, I will not be coming back.”
Jordan admits being disillusioned with the game even before he was pushed over the edge by an FA tribunal’s decision to award Palace just £700,000 compensation for youth player John Bostock following his controversial transfer to Tottenham last month.
Jordan has become one of the most outspoken personalities in football since buying Palace out of administration eight years ago at the age of 32, which made him the youngest chairman in the Football League.
He made around £40m after selling his firm The Pocket Phone Shop to the Carphone Warehouse and immediately pledged to have the South London club back in the Premier League within five years.
But it did not take long for him to grow tired of the way football is run.
He directed plenty of his venom at players’ agents, who he believes are responsible for many of the ills of the modern game.
With Jordan now spending most of his time at his villa in Marbella, the Palace chairman leaves all transfer negotiations to chief executive Phil Alexander and director Kevin Watts.
“Agents are nasty scum,” he said. “They’re evil and divisive and pointless.
“They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.
“In my opinion, no owner in their right mind would willingly invite an average agent into his academy, any more than a brothel owner would let a syphilitic nutter into his whorehouse.
“If an agent does a good job for me then I will pay him - but I don’t deal with players’ agents or agents employed by other clubs.”
But, amazingly, Jordan also took a pop at the long-suffering fans who have to dip further into their deep pockets every time a player agrees a new contract.
He insists the fans’ expectations increase the pressure on clubs to go after the best players and that in turn, hands all the power to the men in the dressing room.
“The public keep on chanting players’ names and wanting better players,” he said.
“The only time they’ve had enough is when the players play badly.
“Fans wonder why they have to pay £50 for a kit for their son - but the price is that because they’ve been clamouring for their better players.”
dougdeep
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Nemesis
SERIOUSLY!
He's not too wrong on most counts there-it's about time somebody within the game had the balls to say what he's said.
Billy the Fish
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I agree with his comments about agents, but who is he to start making comments about Rooneys wife, she's got nothing to do with football. I hope Rooney chins the orange faced cockmuncher
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Same here. And I hope her husband will support her actions
Still true tho eh? Just another Scouser on the make. Tolerate a couple of years of life with Shrek, have a kid by him, then retire to a castle in Cheshire, while the gravy train gets progressively robbed blind by his 'advisers' and ends up a penniless wreck living in his ma and da's back room. Same as it ever was.
I think Wayne has already been in her back room more than once you will find
Billy the Fish
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I know where you're coming from, and I'd be in total agreement if you said it about Gerrards missus, she is an absolute waste of space and an oxygen thief. At least Coleen makes her own money and I don't see her as being as flash as some of the other WAGS. Of course I don't know any of them personally so I could be way off the mark.Same here. And I hope her husband will support her actions
Still true tho eh? Just another Scouser on the make. Tolerate a couple of years of life with Shrek, have a kid by him, then retire to a castle in Cheshire, while the gravy train gets progressively robbed blind by his 'advisers' and ends up a penniless wreck living in his ma and da's back room. Same as it ever was.
SJ is however distancing himself from the NoTW according to Palace
"Simon Jordan would like to make it clear that he did not take part in an interview, marked EXCLUSIVE, with the News Of The World on Sunday 20th July 2008.
He has referred this matter to his lawyers, Messrs Sue, Grabbit and Runne.
On the subject of the sale of the club he would also like to state that Crystal Palace Football Club will only be sold to an entity that would have the heart of the club at its best interests, such as Al Qu'Eda, Rose West or The Chuckle Brothers. "
"Simon Jordan would like to make it clear that he did not take part in an interview, marked EXCLUSIVE, with the News Of The World on Sunday 20th July 2008.
He has referred this matter to his lawyers, Messrs Sue, Grabbit and Runne.
On the subject of the sale of the club he would also like to state that Crystal Palace Football Club will only be sold to an entity that would have the heart of the club at its best interests, such as Al Qu'Eda, Rose West or The Chuckle Brothers. "