Brand New Club for Palace Boss ; the Path From Football to Food Is Becoming Well Trodden for Some of the Sport's Top Names

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SIMON Jordan bounds into the lounge of the Grosvenor House Hotel, his home when he is in London. The self-made man and football club owner has decided to try his hand at the Soho club scene, and he's here to tell me why.

Jordan made his millions from building up a phone company in his twenties and became the youngest chairman in the Premiership when he bought Crystal Palace in 2000. He is now 38, still an adrenaline junkie constantly looking for the next buzz, like that which that drove his first business.

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Brand New Club for Palace Boss ; the Path From Football to Food Is Becoming Well Trodden for Some of the Sport's Top Names

That drive was what fuelled a chain of mobile phone shops that went from nought to 200 in the space of six years. "It consumed me with passion," he says. "It was achievement and desire and I swapped it for money (Pounds 73 million, to be exact) so I t...

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