Jordan denies 'hating' Dowie

Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan today denied telling a magazine that he “hated” manager Iain Dowie, despite the club’s promotion to the Barclays Premiership in 2004 under his command.

“What I said was I couldn’t stand Iain Dowie, but it was tongue in cheek and taken completely out of context,” Jordan told a High Court judge on the second day of Palace’s £1m compensation claim against Dowie over his departure from Selhurst Park last summer.