bilstonjambo Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 I know the man is a bit of a bottom but i like this article. http://blogs.notw.co.uk/sport/2008/07/simon-jordan-bl.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilstonjambo Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 I know the man is a bit of a bottom but i like this article. http://blogs.notw.co.uk/sport/2008/07/simon-jordan-bl.html SIMON JORDAN today delivers the most damning verdict ever on the crumbling state of the beautiful game. In an explosive, no-holds barred exclusive interview, the controversial Crystal Palace chairman fires both barrels at Cristiano Ronaldo, Frank Lampard, Coleen Rooney, Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini, greedy agents and even long-suffering football fans. Jordan has finally decided to walk out on football as the game descends into a bickering war over players’ inflated contracts, lack of loyalty, greed, corruption and arrogance — culminating in Manchester United superstar Ronaldo’s absurd claim that he is being treated 'like a slave'. As the angry 40-year-old multi-millionaire businessman prepared to sell his Championship club to the highest bidder, he: BRANDED Ronaldo a 'silly little boy' who should be made to do as he’s told. INSISTED Chelsea star Lampard is not worth ?150,000 a week. ACCUSED FIFA president Sepp Blatter of being a 'bloody idiot'. BLASTED UEFA chief Michel Platini’s incredible arrogance. SLAUGHTERED Wayne Rooney’s showbiz WAG Coleen McLoughlin’s image as a role model, claiming she is just a plain little girl from Liverpool. VILIFIED soccer agents as being 'nasty, evil, pointless ****'. “The reality is that football is a bulls*** world - an insidious, insipid, egotistical, greedy, self-motivated game,” stormed Jordan. “And the problem is that NOBODY is going to change that. Wrong “You read on the front pages of newspapers about people unable to sell their homes and heading for the bread line - but you read on the back pages about footballers turning down ?150,000-a-week offers! “If you get 60,000 people singing your name every week, you lose touch with reality. “Footballers live on an island called ‘Football World’ where everything they do is right and everything that is said about them is wrong.” Ronaldo has infuriated Jordan with his constant hankering to quit Old Trafford and sign for Real Madrid — despite still having four years left on his Old Trafford contract. And Jordan declared: “The Ronaldo thing is about the fact he wants to go to Spain. “But I’m sorry, little boy, you signed a five-year contract and you’re going to do as you’re told. “He can sulk and pout and sit there with his earplugs in, looking pretty, for as long as he wants. “But if he’s not playing first team football for United, he’s going nowhere - so he’ll pretty soon come in line, get back in the team and will be doing as he’s told.” FIFA chief Blatter - the most powerful football man on the planet — infuriated Old Trafford boss Sir Alex Ferguson by insisting United were treating ?120,000-a-week Ronaldo like a slave, an incredible comment which the Portuguese winker agreed with. And Jordan added: “One thing that should change is the football establishment’s attitude towards footballers. Arrogant “If Sepp Blatter said what he said then he’s a bloody fool.” Jordan is also disgusted that Chelsea’s England midfield star Lampard, 30, is continuing to hold out for a mammoth ?150,000-a-week deal at Chelsea. “There is not a footballer or any kind of sportsman on the planet worth ?150,000-a-week,” he said. “I can tell you a few surgeons who are - but no sportsman. “The more I watch this ‘Planet Football’ and see the back pages dominate the front pages and people like Coleen McLoughlin - who is just a plain little girl from Liverpool - set up as role models, I think to myself: ‘What the hell is going on?’ “Michel Platini is going in front of the European Union to identify six sports which should have a special exclusion from human rights. “But I look at it as another example of how arrogant football is - that it thinks it is above everything else. “It thinks it’s above every other worker and industry in the world - because it’s football. “When I leave football you will never see me involved in another club. Nutter “The moment the door of Selhurst Park hits me on the a***, I will not be coming back.” Jordan admits being disillusioned with the game even before he was pushed over the edge by an FA tribunal’s decision to award Palace just ?700,000 compensation for youth player John Bostock following his controversial transfer to Tottenham last month. Jordan has become one of the most outspoken personalities in football since buying Palace out of administration eight years ago at the age of 32, which made him the youngest chairman in the Football League. He made around ?40m after selling his firm The Pocket Phone Shop to the Carphone Warehouse and immediately pledged to have the South London club back in the Premier League within five years. But it did not take long for him to grow tired of the way football is run. He directed plenty of his venom at players’ agents, who he believes are responsible for many of the ills of the modern game. With Jordan now spending most of his time at his villa in Marbella, the Palace chairman leaves all transfer negotiations to chief executive Phil Alexander and director Kevin Watts. “Agents are nasty ****,” he said. “They’re evil and divisive and pointless. “They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job. Power “In my opinion, no owner in their right mind would willingly invite an average agent into his academy, any more than a brothel owner would let a syphilitic nutter into his whorehouse. “If an agent does a good job for me then I will pay him - but I don’t deal with players’ agents or agents employed by other clubs.” But, amazingly, Jordan also took a pop at the long-suffering fans who have to dip further into their deep pockets every time a player agrees a new contract. He insists the fans’ expectations increase the pressure on clubs to go after the best players and that in turn, hands all the power to the men in the dressing room. “The public keep on chanting players’ names and wanting better players,” he said. “The only time they’ve had enough is when the players play badly. “Fans wonder why they have to pay ?50 for a kit for their son - but the price is that because they’ve been clamouring for their better players.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
$ilvery_Moon Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 For once he speaks a lot of sense. I agree with him on the Bostock tribunal too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djg001 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Vlad and Simon should Join Forces hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToadKiller Dog Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 European football at the top level is a cash cow and them at the top know it ,but it wont last for ever ,they are showing signs of an arrogance which can only lead to a fall at some point ,i dont think ueffa is ready if things take a bad turn in terms of ecconomies. As Rants go its a good one from a guy who usualy i dislike . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelly Terraces Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Can't disagree with a lot of that, about time somone had the nuts to say it. He offered The Specials a million quid to reform and play at his birthday party - I like the bloke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigC Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 I've always agreed with most of what he's said. I thought it was hilarious when he issuesd a writ when Iain Dowie took on a new job in the south after he agreed to let him leave Palace to be closer to his family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Chat Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 As Rants go its a good one from a guy who usualy i dislike . Completely agree. There's not much wrong with any of that outburst despite the fact that Jordan is, in the main, a plum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
269miles Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 He did a Sunday column in the Observer a couple of years ago. When he was due up before the FA beaks on a disciplinary charge he said he was eagerly looking foward to the hearing. As the fine (and he was expecting to get hammered) was based on ability to pay , and as he'd already lost ?6 million at Palace , he said he was relishing the FA having to give him a rebate. I also admired him for his stance with his ex- manager whom he accused of lying to get a move to Charlton without compensation when the bloke said he wanted to move north to his family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Le Clos Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Someone needed to say it, completely agree with everything he has said. I've always thought he was a bit of a bell, but when you think about it, everything he has ever said/done makes sense, it's just the way he says/does things that don't. Would take him as Hearts chairman in a 2nd. He has the right idea about how a club should be run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.N.T.H. Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 He was totally shafted in the Bostock ruling. It's unfortunate that guys like him, who have ploughed a lot into their club, and its academy, are made to walk away due to the way football's heading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wattie Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Finally someone has put into the press what everyone has known and thought for years. Hats off to Jordan, respect where it's due. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi must stay Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 I know the man is a bit of a bottom but i like this article. http://blogs.notw.co.uk/sport/2008/07/simon-jordan-bl.html yup everything's wrong with football except him. Total ***** imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Maroonblood Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Good article. Top bloke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brow Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Try reading the thread Rudi Must Stay. Its not about whether he's a plum or not, its about the fact that pretty much everything he says in the article is 100% spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Findlay Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Good article but, could have been said in six words. Football is rotten to the core. Stand by for others mainly them in the FA etc to rubbish it. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seymour M Hersh Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 I know the man is a bit of a bottom but i like this article. http://blogs.notw.co.uk/sport/2008/07/simon-jordan-bl.html All the mod edit does is repeat what others have been saying for a considerable time. He says nothing new or incisive and is a total waste of space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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