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Got your goat?

Dowie was Palace manager between 2003 and 22 May 2006 and Jordan said: “He told me he wanted to go back to the north to be with his family.

“My club waived compensation because he said he wanted to return to the north.”

Dowie had a compensation clause in his contract which meant if he left for another club they would have to pay Palace £1m.

However, Jordan agreed to waive that clause and it is this that prompted the chairman to take action.

It is unlikely he would be able to stop Dowie becoming manager of Charlton - but this move may be designed to recover the compensation he would have received through that clause.

Both Dowie and Charlton insist that they never held a conversation until after the manager had parted company with Palace.

“I released him from a £1m compensation clause because he said he wasn’t going to do what he’s done,” said Jordan...

“I thought it was a joke. I thought it was the pantomime season,” said Charlton chairman Richard Murray.

“Simon has always been rather envious or jealous of Charlton because we have had the success he has been striving for, with a wonderful stadium which we own.

“But I do not know what has got his goat. Maybe he should ring me.”

- Palace take action against Dowie, BBC.co.uk, May 30, 2006.

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