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Be Careful What You Wish For
- Author
- Simon Jordan
- Narrator
- Simon Jordan
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 2 June 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Autobiography: sport, Association football (Soccer), Memoirs, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Sports teams and clubs, Sociology: sport and leisure, Ownership and organization of enterprises
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
Read this explosive insight into the previously unseen world of football club ownership by one of the game's most-recognisable figures.
Multimillionaire at 32
Youngest Premier League football club owner at 36
His club and a fortune lost at 42
Owning your childhood club - that's the dream, isn't it?
Simon Jordan made his fortune building a mobile phone company from scratch. When he sold it for £75 million, he bought Crystal Palace FC, the club he'd supported as a boy, and led them into the Premier League.
Ten years later Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on being the owner of a football club and how the game really works. Hopes and dreams sit alongside greed, self-interest, dodgy transfers, boardroom fights and dressing room dressing downs. Throughout no one is spared, least of all Jordan himself.
**A finalist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year**
**Shortlisted for the British Sports Book Award for best autobiography*
© Simon Jordan 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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If you are a football fan and have not read this book, you are missing out
John Inverdale
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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
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No punches pulled
Independent
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A frank and brutal insight into why football and business don't mix
Theo Paphitis
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I couldn't help laughing... He can't half tell a story
Evening Standard
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Brash, flash and full of bottle-blond ambition
Independent on Sunday
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One hell of a read
Sport Magazine
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Bad luck and bad decisions make for a page-turning read
Shortlist magazine
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Ripe with detail and wincingly beliveable
Sunday Telegraph
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An important document to have arrived in the world of football
Observer
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Details
- Author
- Simon Jordan
- Narrator
- Simon Jordan
- Duration
- 9 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 June 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529196238
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Autobiography: sport, Association football (Soccer), Memoirs, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Sports teams and clubs, Sociology: sport and leisure, Ownership and organization of enterprises
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Read this explosive insight into the previously unseen world of football club ownership by one of the game's most-recognisable figures.Multimillionaire at 32Youngest Premier League football club owner at 36His club and a fortune lost at 42Owning your childhood club - that's the dream, isn't it?Simon Jordan made his fortune building a mobile phone company from scratch. When he sold it for £75 million, he bought Crystal Palace FC, the club he'd supported as a boy, and led them into the Premier League.Ten years later Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on being the owner of a football club and how the game really works. Hopes and dreams sit alongside greed, self-interest, dodgy transfers, boardroom fights and dressing room dressing downs. Throughout no one is spared, least of all Jordan himself.**A finalist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year****Shortlisted for the British Sports Book Award for best autobiography*© Simon Jordan 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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