He has described himself as being "good enough to be a professional, but mentally I wasn't interested. You often get players who have bags of talent, but not the required application. I was one of them." [2] His father Peter Jordan played for the Palace youth team, but never made an appearance for the first team. Simon Jordan: Buy a football club and lose a fortune – the Jordan way". The Independent. 2 June 2012. i) Jordan, Simon (4 September 2005). "Trevor just didn't have the whoooar factor". The Observer. London. Read this explosive insight into the previously unseen world of football club ownership by one of the game's most-recognisable figures. But in truth this gripped me all the way and wouldn’t allow me to ever let distractions interfere and accept missing a second of SJ’s accounts.

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Palace take action against Dowie". BBC Sport. 30 May 2006. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012 . Retrieved 23 October 2013.

Jordan stopped writing for The Observer in the 2006–07 season. He started writing again with his own column entitled "Simon Jordan’s Big opinion" in The Sun from August 2019 to November 2020.

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Crystal Palace now, 10 years on, sit 11th in the Premier League table...& are owned, managed & supported by locals....and you can't say that about any other club in the world, can you? Simon Jordan set the benchmark for aspiring football clubs to take on the giants in their flashy theatres of dreams...& ultimately failed.But he went down with a bang!! 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. Jordan, Simon (16 April 2006). "Simon Jordan: gambling is not a problem". The Guardian . Retrieved 7 June 2021.

Hills, David (25 September 2005). "Guardian Unlimited Football: News: Football: Observer's Jordan faces FA charge". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 23 October 2013. Football is a notoriously murky overpriced players, dodgy transfers, top-level corruption. Of course, the establishment always closes rank and those at the top stay quiet. But Jordan doesn't do quiet. And now, for the first time, he lifts the lid on what really goes on behind the scenes in football. With his year-round tan Jordan may be a 'marmite' figure, but love him or hate him his story is a revelation.