Palace chairman considers leaving club
Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan has revealed he is considering leaving the club, despite their promotion to the Premiership.
Palace beat West Ham 1-0 in the Nationwide Division One play-off to secure a place in the top-flight, something that seemed almost impossible when Iain Dowie took over as manager last December with the side teetering above the relegation zone.
But Jordan, aged 35, insists the financial burden and hard work involved since rescuing Palace from administration four years ago have taken their toll and his close friends and family are urging him to consider his position.
“This is not an impulsive decision to get out,” he told the Sunday Mirror.
“In the past, I have largely ignored certain issues relating to my involvement with Palace but I always maintained that if we secured promotion I would consider my position.
“Certain people’s natural assumption would be to suggest that I want to profit from our promotion. But money is not the motivator. If that had been the case I would never have got involved in the first place.
“In reality, for the most part for four years I have found it a very difficult, disillusioning and disingenuous business where decency, hard work and commitment are interpreted as arrogance, aggression and interference.”
