Another thread having a pop at Simon Jordan!!! Yawn!!

Did the poor palace fans nearly lose their team?? Awww bless!! At least if there's no Palace, you can just find something else to do on a Saturday afternoon, that poor sod lost millions of his own money and had 10 years of stress trying to run the club, so I think his opinion is more relevant than a lot of those Sky pundits who have never put their head on the chopping block in any way shape or form!!

10 years ago, I got talking to a chap on a Waterloo East platform. (I was wearing something Palace)
This bloke went to a public school with SJ

He reckoned he was a loner and up-his-own-@r5e from even school days

Purley Boys. Originally a grammar school. The General of the Death Star went there. He was the CGI image in episode 7 for young people. The school took ages 14-18 when schools after juniors only had 3 years, as it would've done when sj was there, but it wasn't a grammar or private. Just a state school.

It became Coulsdon College in the very late '80s. The old buildings have been knocked down and in its place is a big glass fronted building resembling something from Star Wars.

On Sky the Debate currently. Can't believe how many people are all of a sudden making him out to be some sort of footballing philosopher. For me he just waffles, talks in riddles and comes across as a complete narcissist.

I've had my fair share of complaints for Parish recently but watching this guy go on in the way he does does make you wonder.

Ignoring the posts which clearly deserve to be ignored (if not censured), it’s surely ironic that the man who brought our club to the brink of extinction should now be a commentator on its activities. Yes, he’s a fan and he pumped a lot of money into the club he supported, but if it hadn’t been for the Consortium he might very well have been the man who consigned the memory of Crystal Palace FC to the history books.
He is opinionated and some of his opinions were and are worth expressing, but how he can have the brass neck to criticise the regime that succeeded the mess that his regime left behind is beyond me.
You only have to read his autobiography to realise that he was a self-professed wide boy and his wealth came from a lucky break rather than a sound and sustained business career.
Now I’m not knocking this, as it’s more than I’ll ever achieve. If I had the wealth, of course I’d be looking to see how I could support our club. Similarly, Steve Parish has achieved far more than I could ever hope to achieve. He’s also invested big time in our football club – and to such a great effect. He’s a committed fan – unlike the foreign investors who’ve backed so many other clubs in the premier league. Do we really want to be a Chinese, Russian or Saudi plaything?
As Simon Jordan said in his autobiography’s title – “Be careful what you wish for “.