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Be Careful What You Wish For
Oct 30, 2024 1:27 PM

Author:Simon Jordan

Be Careful What You Wish For

Ever dreamed of owning your boyhood football club? Be careful what you wish for...

Simon Jordan grew up a stone's throw from Crystal Palace Football Club. As a boy he used to break into the Palace ground for a kick-about on the hallowed turf. On leaving school he entered the mobile phone business. By the age of thirty-two, he'd built a company from nothing, sold it for £75 million and bought his childhood club. By the age of forty-two Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything.

Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on the owner's story and reveals for the first time how the national game really works. Jordan spares no one, least of all himself, as he takes us inside a world where hopes and aspirations sit alongside greed, self-interest, overpriced players, dodgy transfers and top-level incompetence. He doesn't hold back.

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. The perfect Christmas gift for all football fans.

'One of the best football books you will ever read' Birmingham Post

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

Brash, flash and full of bottle-blond ambition

—— Simon Redfern , Independent on Sunday

One hell of a read

—— Sport Magazine

Bad luck and bad decisions make for a page-turning read

—— Shortlist magazine

Ripe with detail and wincingly beliveable

—— Sunday Telegraph

An important document to have arrived in the world of football

—— Danny Kelly , Observer

A lively offering... A good read and at times highly amusing

—— Sun

Compelling and revealing

—— Metro
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