{"id":51,"date":"2006-04-01T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2006-04-01T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T11:22:00","slug":"come-on-jordan-if-you-think-youre-hard-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/come-on-jordan-if-you-think-youre-hard-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Come On, Jordan, If You Think You&#8217;re Hard Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/teams\/c\/crystal_palace\/4862106.stm\">Hilariously bad-tempered Crystal Palace chairman<\/a> Simon Jordan slags off practically everyone in this BBC interview but his heart at least is firmly in South London:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve been in football for six years, I find it ultimately to be a disingenuous and dishonest game.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certainly not in it for the money. If we are promoted it will cost \u00a35m before we start in players&#8217; bonuses. Even if we make it to the play-offs and get no further, it will cost me personally \u00a3200,000.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get out when I&#8217;ve stabilised Palace in the Premiership, in a new stadium and when somebody comes along who can take it further.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s never going to be a queue for that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Premiership stability? New stadium? Dreams, glorious, foolish dreams&#8230; the stuff that hope is made of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilariously bad-tempered Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan slags off practically everyone in this BBC interview but his heart at least is firmly in South London: I&#8217;ve been in football for six years, I find it ultimately to be a disingenuous and dishonest game. I&#8217;m certainly not in it for the money. If we are promoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanwhitbread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}