Back in the day when Palace fan Mark Goldberg bought Palace and lost it all in an ill-judged attempt to make us a great club we went in to administration.

Time went on and nobody wanted to touch us. We were saved at the 11th hour by another Palace fan, Simon Jordan. SJ put his money up and bought the club. He did his best for 10 years in which time he got us into the Premier League and, unfortunately, back down again.

Jordan is a divisive figure but I respect him for his stance on agents, stuffy chairman, the FA, Dowie and so on.

He is a Palace fan who also lost it all in attempting to make us a great club, in the right way. Probably what took him over the edge was buying the freehold of the ground.

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.

(You can read about this in his book and he talks about it on his Twitter feed and in interviews)

So there we were again, in administration and nobody wanted to touch us. Up steps Parish and 3 other Palace fans to save us at the 11th hour.

Fast forward to January 2015 and we get 2 extra American investors. All well and good.

My question is this, why does Jordan get so much sh*t from Palace fans while Parish is seen as the golden one?

When we were in the PL under Dowie nobody said "Jordan can do what he likes, he saves us from extinction!" In fact people were over joyed when he went after Dowie after he left for Charlton in the same way as Parish going after Pulis.

So why is Parish seen as the Pope for saving us while Jordan is seen as the devil incarnate?

Parish had a hand in pulling the rug from under Jordan. Maybe it was for the best, maybe it wasn't but that's not the point, is it?

I have a lot of time for Jordan and also for Goldberg... Okay, more sympathy for Goldberg but who among us wouldn't buy the club if we had £50m in the bank and we were about to become extinct?

Goldberg failed. Jordan failed. The thing they have in common is they were one man bands. Parish had 3 other investors and now he has a further 2 making it a 6 man team yet he is perceived to be some fantastic businessman.

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.

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!

I get equally annoyed when someone is credited for writing a hit song when it is the producer who actually crafts the song into the hit we all know and love from a basic demo. But that is a conversation for another day.

Very nicely written and I agree with the majority

Having read Jordan's autobiography, I do think he and Parish have fairly similar personalities - I'm sure plenty of businessmen like them do. But I think all the negative aspects of their characters - overrating their own intelligence, inflexibility, vanity, etc - were ramped up to much more dangerous levels in Jordan. Parish might be inflexible and stubborn, but he'll bend. Both men have made mistakes, but you just get the impression that Jordan's resulted more from self-delusion.

If Twitter was in full flow back in Jordan's time I'm sure he'd of been getting just as much stick and praise as Parish. We have to trust the people in charge, we have no option. We don't have to like them.
Think the only way we grow from here is for them to sell up, but then who knows what we get?

That's Life
And as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a Dream.
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

He then tried to take out secured loans against these types of items and anything else he could find. So in effect using that money to pump into more Paul Ifill's, all for £1mil, all waiting for someone else to do something. So asa result we don't own anything and when Clyne or Zaha are sold, the money is used to pay back the loan.

COYP

Cheers mate. Difficult to be 100% agreeable so the majority is pretty good.