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Be Careful What You Wish For

By: Simon Jordan
Narrated by: Simon Jordan
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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

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Critic reviews

If you are a football fan and have not read this book, you are missing out (John Inverdale)
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
No punches pulled
A frank and brutal insight into why football and business don't mix (Theo Paphitis)
I couldn't help laughing... He can't half tell a story
Brash, flash and full of bottle-blond ambition (Simon Redfern)
One hell of a read
Bad luck and bad decisions make for a page-turning read
Ripe with detail and wincingly beliveable
An important document to have arrived in the world of football (Danny Kelly)
All stars
Most relevant
Thoroughly enjoyed this and great that it was read by SJ.

Incredible honest insight into his highs and lows …

Really good listen

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Great book and very honest , a good man with freest intentions and didn’t get any credit for it

Amazing

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Definitely one for any football fan - insightful, humorous and very interesting.
Excellent narration from Simon.
Highly recommend this audiobook.

Excellent

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A great story with brutal honesty. if you like football and business there is no better.
Simon Jordan's sometimes candid approach gives you a real insight into the football world.
His pure honesty to disclose figures accounts and mentioned participants is very refreshing.

I hope Simon Jordan gets back into the game because at least there will be a light among the darkness of money grabbing, scoundrels that are in in football.
A class act.

Excellent

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Really good, honest account of his time at Palace, and mistakes made, well read from start to finish.

Great account of his ups and downs

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