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Sunday Times intervjuade Crystal Palace ägaren Simon Jordan...
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I dont go to football to drink chardonnay in the board rooms with those tossers. I go to win games. I dont have anything in common with 90% of football club chairmen."
"Football is a bullshit world. Agents are nasty scum. 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."
I cant help being honest. I'm not a fan of the creed and culture of footballers. I hate this hero status they have. I want a good club and good football, not superstar footballers. Football's about the club at the heart of the community, not a handful of transient players."
"It's the fans that I love. They're the heart of the sport. I remember driving back after Palace lost to Reading a couple of years ago, and David, this disabled guy, was walking to the station on crutches. I picked him up and drove him back to London. I sat there thinking the whole time how much I hated the players for not representing people like him properly. I hated them for not winning and making this guy's life better. When I think about what people like him contribute and what agents and players take out of football, it drives me nuts.
It is this “real person” that fans warm to. He may be the most unpopular man at the chairmen’s get-togethers, but the fans have taken him to their heart, and that is all that matters to him. “I love football fans. I love the banter,” he says. “I like playing clubs with good fans, and the fans give you loads. I think it’s proper, real football.
“I know it infuriated the fans when I turned up in sunglasses at football games and was strutting around the whole time, but I think they understand me now. I see it as gladiatorial and high-octane. It’s all about the hunt, the chase. That’s what I love. I love football on the pitch and fans in the stands — I just can’t stand the bullshit. I have no interest in the other Premiership chairmen and no interest in schmoozing. F** * ’em all.”