Be Careful What You Wish For

Product Description

Ever dreamed of owning your boyhood football club? 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 GBP75 million & bought his childhood club. By the age of forty-two Palace was in administration & Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For" lifts the lid on the owner's story & 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 & aspirations sit alongside greed self-interest overpriced players dodgy transfers & top-level incompetence. He doesn't hold back. Breathtakingly honest highly controversial humorous & 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 & ambition; a Shakespearean tragedy that exposes the dark side of chasing a dream."