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Be Careful What You Wish For

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Be Careful What You Wish For

By: Simon Jordan
Narrated by: Simon Jordan
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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
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Who'd own a football club? Not me for, now, even if I could. Simon Jordan's frank and honest opinions and experiences about what appears to be on the face of it a very glamorous and lucrative lifestyle, are well worth a listen.

A Great Listen

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Simon tells his story well on his journey to success and failure. It's remarkable how a missed penalty can ultimately change the path of a club and its finances. I would love to work for Simon Jordan and really enjoyed this audio book.

Great Story

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He may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but this is an fascinating story well told!

Great listen

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A fantastic listen, a roller coaster ride into his world of owning a mobile phone company and a football club. I want a second book so I can find out what happened after the dust settled and I want Simon to narrate it.

Warts and All

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If you really want to know what went on behind the scenes at a Premier League club, and see things through the eyes of a football club owner through success and failure, then this is the book for you.

Fantastic Audiobook

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