'He is a Palace fan who also lost it all in attempting to make us a great club, in the right way.'

I'm not sure how buying champ players for £1 mil and then foreign unknowns in the prem is the right way or more right than now.

'Palace again went in to administration because, as SJ puts it, "I ran out of money" and also he details how, in his opinion, Steve Parish was in the background putting the boot in.'

Take my point above. And I don't know how Parish was 'putting the boot in'. Is putting the boot in not handing your own cash over to chuck into the furnace? Waiting for the inevitable shows SP is smart, if a little opportunistic.

'My question is this, why does Jordan get so much sh*t from Palace fans while Parish is seen as the golden one?'

Maybe because it was inevitable where we were going. But also because he slammed anyone not buying a ST, made it extremely costly and difficult for people to get to prem matches and ridiculously costly to get into champ matches, but ridiculously cheap to get STs, some of them effectively giving seasons of entry away free in the future. It was just bonkers.

'Parish had a hand in pulling the rug from under Jordan.'

By not handing his money over that would inevitably vanish forever unless we were promoted by June 2011?

'Like Goldberg and Jordan I have a lot of time for Parish (and the other 3) for saving the club. But, they have major failings and should be criticised, held to account and questioned.'

Agreed.

'I just don't get why some people dislike Jordan so much. Maybe I'm just getting old because I even have a new found respect for Ron Noades and what he did for Palace after reading how much scouting he did and how he had to convince Coppell to sign players like Geoff Thomas. Noades got no credit and Coppell got it all, nothing against Coppell!'

You just got the impression with Jordan, because of the flashness, it was for attention. Nothing subtle. Very different to Parish. Jordan wanted to change the profession and industry, rub people up the wrong way and not care about it. Whether he was right or wrong, and for a large part he was right, it doesn't get you anywhere. Whereas Parish works with the industry, not against it. It took some time for 2010 to rebuild relationships with other clubs to do business again.

Jordan made me laugh and cringe, sometimes at the same time. Probably the same for a lot of Palace fans looking at other Palace fans. Parish makes me happy, frustrated and all the other emotions regular chairmen make you feel.

Noades used to send down a lot of physically big and fit prospects down to train with different age groups. Sometimes they looked like they were too old for that age group, and probably were. Noades achived loads, but took money out of the club after Wright left meaning the others left, and then after the '95 semi final and relegation. He's also critcised for selling the club without the ground. But Goldberg bought it without the ground.

This is a good part:

"Palace was in administration for just five months and during that time those agendas that I had become aware of in the months leading up to the loss of my club became all too clear to me. Initially I was considered the largest obstacle as I was the biggest creditor and could vote down the CVA and subsequently block any sale.

"I met Guilfoyle days later and he asked if I was recording the conversation, which struck me as odd, but what he said next clarified the reason why he had asked. Firstly, he asked me if I was prepared to fund the administration! And then, jaw-droppingly, stated that he should never have taken it on. It broke his personal rules of administration, taking into account who was going to fund it and what the exit strategy was. He went on to add that Palace should never have gone into administration. In my opinion this made him little better than an ambulance-chaser. It was scant consolation to learn from Guilfoyle that he had taken the job on the fly because not one of the major firms wanted to touch it.

"When Palace went into administration we were in eighth place in the League and a few points off the play-off spots. The club was said to be £30 million in debt, but as I have said £23 million of that was to me and I wasn’t calling it in. And also it had a playing squad independently valued at £27 million.

"So, as Guilfoyle himself stated to me, the business should not be in administration. All I had done in the last eight months was pour millions of pounds into reducing debts. I had kept the playing squad and also inadvertently got the stadium priced in the best way it would ever be – and all for the benefit of others."

I have so much respect for our owners and even more for the people who blow smoke up his rear end.

I expect Parish has learnt a lot from Jordan's mistakes but would never admit it,.
I like Jordan, he had a go and it was the usual Palace rollercoaster with him at the helm.
its easy for some fans to slag him off, they could go home after the games and forget it, he had the pressure of running the club, sometimes using a lot his own money!!
It'll be interesting to see how Parish copes with relegation and to see how long he sticks around to try and get us back.