No not at all, he was very welcoming,” said Kean, who went into detail about his interactions with the royal family. This best-selling autobiography will stagger you at the greed, dishonesty, pettiness, and stupidity of a large percentage of the footballing fraternity.

We won the league for the first time and we started the academy, I was coaching the players and the local staff and it was a fantastic time, a really big time in my coaching career. By the ag e of thirty-two, he'd built a company from nothing, sold it for 75 million and bought his childhood club.

I have zero interest in Football biographies as I find the vast majority of people involved in Football are absolute bores but after listening to Simon on TalkSport I've found him to be a forthright and interesting bloke. Yet Jordan is still picking up the pieces from a disastrous nine months which saw his entire business empire crumble. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

Jordan gained a reputation as a manager-killer early in his Palace reign, though this changed as his reign progressed. However, the club remained in the Premier League for just one season before being narrowly relegated in 2005. As your friends and family pass on their congratulations, the wedding pianist plays live music of your choosing as the drinks are served. This tome seemingly exists as a way to vent his spleen, this being written and released so soon after he lost his beloved Crystal Palace to administration (or a coup, as he believes) and many a score is settled as he rips into various personalities within and outside of the game. He has described himself as being “good enough to be a professional, but mentally I wasn’t interested.In 2000, he purchased Crystal Palace Football Club and remained chairman of the club until administration in early 2010. At the beginning of the book it is autobiographical, birth, childhood, parents, friends, education etc.