Simon Jordan has blasted football's "arrogance" as he prepares to turn his back on the game for good.

The Crystal Palace chairman insists he has had enough of a sport he calls an "insidious, insipid, egotistical, greedy, self-motivated game", and believes the problem starts right at the top.

"Michel Platini is going in front of the European Union to identify six sports which should have a special exclusion from human rights," Jordan said.

"But I look at it as another example of how arrogant football is - that it thinks it is above everything else.

"It thinks it's above every other worker and industry in the world - because it's football.

"When I leave football you will never see me involved in another club.'

"The moment the door of Selhurst Park hits me, I will not be coming back.'

The last straw for Jordan was seeing a tribunal decree that Tottenham should pay the Eagles just an initial £700,000 for 16-year-old John Bostock.

And he blasted the agents who he believes are turning the heads of youngsters in a desperate hunt for cash.

"Agents are nasty scum," he told the News of the World. "They're evil and divisive and
pointless.

"They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

"In my opinion, no owner in their right mind would willingly invite an average agent into his academy."