Simon Jordan has blasted the `arrogance' of the football world 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 brands an "insidious, insipid, egotistical, greedy, self-motivated game".

His outburst follows on from an FA tribunal`s ruling that Premier League side Tottenham should only pay the Eagles an initial fee of £700,000 for their 16-year-old Academy starlet John Bostock.

Jordan told the News of the World: "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.

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