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| Palace chief wins damages claim | |
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| Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan has won a £1m damages claim against the club's former manager Iain Dowie. | |
| Mr Jordan alleged Mr Dowie lied when he negotiated his way out of his contract with the club and joined arch-rivals Charlton on 22 May 2006. | Mr Jordan alleged Mr Dowie lied when he negotiated his way out of his contract with the club and joined arch-rivals Charlton on 22 May 2006. |
| Mr Dowie's contract stated that if he left to join another club, Crystal Palace would receive £1m. | Mr Dowie's contract stated that if he left to join another club, Crystal Palace would receive £1m. |
| "It's a good day for football. A judgement has been found in favour of contracts," Mr Jordan told BBC News. | |
| 'Hard slog' | |
| "The allegations made were not put forward in as dignified a manner as I would have wanted but I'm delighted that they were proven. | "The allegations made were not put forward in as dignified a manner as I would have wanted but I'm delighted that they were proven. |
| "It's been a long hard slog." | "It's been a long hard slog." |
| Mr Jordan said the clause that Palace would receive £1m if Mr Dowie left to join another club had been waived out of goodwill because the manage had said he wanted to be closer to his family in Bolton. | |
| Mr Justice Tugendhat, at the London High Court, ruled Mr Dowie was freed from his contract on the basis of "fraudulent representations". | |
| When he left Palace, Mr Dowie had told the club he had not contacted Charlton and had no present intention of joining them, the court heard. | |
| Mr Dowie, who is now managing Coventry City, told the court in a statement that the case was "without merit". | |
| He had said despite winning promotion to the Premiership for the club in 2004, Mr Jordan had "repeatedly suggested" he should resign. | |
| He added that the club made a "clean break" and avoided paying him contractual entitlements as a result of the waiver. | |
| The level of damages and any costs will be decided at a further court hearing. |