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Mike Bamber



Raleigh Chopper

New member
Sep 1, 2011
12,054
Plymouth
Shame his dream of a new stadium or redevelopment of the Goldstone never happened under his chairmanship it was his dream, hardly a week went by without something about it in the programme.
Great times were had with Mike Bamber in control.
 


Green Cross Code Man

Wunt be druv
Mar 30, 2006
19,655
Eastbourne
Best chairman we have EVER had and SHAMEFUL how he was hounded out of the club. I would love to see a Mike Bamber stand or something in honour of him at the AMEX, if it wasn't for him and his dreams of the future we would forever have been a small time team shuffling round the bottom 2 leagues
Great post! Those were the best times to support the Albion!

I was 16 at the time of the cup final,

Same age as me. It was a pity that our cup final run coincided with my revision time for o levels. Could I concentrate on anything other than football, could I heck!
 




BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
:lolol:
I was 16 at the time of the cup final, my father was helping in the club shop leading up to the game and then on the Sunday after selling tickets for the replay, my brother and I went with him and spent most of the collecting the money scattered all over the floor behind the counter and taking it through to the back office to put into piles. (no I don't know happened to it after that!) My abiding memories were firstly Moseley turning up on his push bike and leaving it in the office and secondly Mike Bamber coming in and sitting with my brother and I around the table helping count the money and taking yet another box full of tickets out to the shop. Spent some time with us totally enthused about the day before. The whole time he never appeared to be without a Rothmans clued to his lip. Looking back now it was very surreal given the immensity of the occasion, especially back then when the whole Country and many parts of the World celebrated final day as one of greatest sporting occasion on the calender.

A great man and what a time to be a kid watching the Albion, just a pity Wickenden was not around to be the rock behind Mike.

Might have been you or your dad who served me. I was well p....d and father in law took me to buy my replay tickets and the queue stretched around the Goldstone. Being drunk I wasnt going to queue with JCL so walked to the front of the queue where the police tried to stop me but Ron Pavey saw me and told the police to let me through and served me immediately. I was a stroppy b......d even then:lolol:
 






BN9 BHA

DOCKERS
NSC Patron
Jul 14, 2013
21,474
Newhaven
Best chairman we have EVER had and SHAMEFUL how he was hounded out of the club. I would love to see a Mike Bamber stand or something in honour of him at the AMEX, if it wasn't for him and his dreams of the future we would forever have been a small time team shuffling round the bottom 2 leagues

Agree with this.

A Mike Bamber statue would be a nice touch at the Amex, but a stand named after him would be better.
 


mbamber

New member
Sep 19, 2014
5
I have a lot of stories to tell but have learnt to keep quiet all of these years. He dedicated himself to the club and some of you are correct when you say that Keith Wickenden was a big loss to him. His real vision was a new stadium at Waterhall. Sainsbury's were happy at the time to help finance the deal if they could have a hypermarket there but I suppose the rest is history. If he had not died so young he would definitely have been back at the club to save it through the dark times.
 


Tubby Mondays

Well-known member
Dec 8, 2005
3,027
A Crack House
:lolol:

Might have been you or your dad who served me. I was well p....d and father in law took me to buy my replay tickets and the queue stretched around the Goldstone. Being drunk I wasnt going to queue with JCL so walked to the front of the queue where the police tried to stop me but Ron Pavey saw me and told the police to let me through and served me immediately. I was a stroppy b......d even then:lolol:

What a lovely tale of selfishness that is.
 




BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
What a lovely tale of selfishness that is.


It is but I wasnt going to lose out on a ticket for the replay becuase some people who had never seen them play jumping on the bandwagon and buying them. In those days I went to every game home and away and formed the opinion, right or wrong, that I was entitled to a replay ticket.
 


Tony Towner's Fridge

Well-known member
Aug 22, 2003
5,384
GLASGOW,SCOTLAND,UK
Best chairman we have EVER had and SHAMEFUL how he was hounded out of the club. I would love to see a Mike Bamber stand or something in honour of him at the AMEX, if it wasn't for him and his dreams of the future we would forever have been a small time team shuffling round the bottom 2 leagues

So true. When I worked on the turnstiles in the 70s he would periodically come down to the North West corner and say hello, which on match days must have been difficult with opposition boards to entertain etc.

Great visionary and would love a part of the Amex to be named in his honour.

TNBA

TTF
 


Mackenzie

Old Brightonian
Nov 7, 2003
33,509
East Wales
I have a lot of stories to tell but have learnt to keep quiet all of these years. He dedicated himself to the club and some of you are correct when you say that Keith Wickenden was a big loss to him. His real vision was a new stadium at Waterhall. Sainsbury's were happy at the time to help finance the deal if they could have a hypermarket there but I suppose the rest is history. If he had not died so young he would definitely have been back at the club to save it through the dark times.
Please tell us if you can, I'd be fascinated to hear about those days from his and your perspective.
 




B.W.

New member
Jul 5, 2003
13,666
Great man. Great times. My BEST Albion-supporting times bar none.
 




Hamilton

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 7, 2003
12,404
Brighton
I've always been intrigued as to why there is nothing to recognise Mike Bamber. It's almost as if we'd rather not talk about those days for some reason. The guy had vision, and if I'm not mistaken, had he been more supported then we might have been able to sustain ourselves in the higher reaches for longer. Would love to know more about his time with the club.
 




Garage_Doors

Originally the Swankers
Jun 28, 2008
11,789
Brighton
It is but I wasnt going to lose out on a ticket for the replay becuase some people who had never seen them play jumping on the bandwagon and buying them. In those days I went to every game home and away and formed the opinion, right or wrong, that I was entitled to a replay ticket.


There's that word again that you love so much.
 






kevo

Well-known member
Mar 8, 2008
9,086
Some pics of the great man:

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severnside gull

Well-known member
May 16, 2007
24,540
By the seaside in West Somerset
In many ways he laid the foundations for the club we see today - forward looking and daring to dream.
Never understood why he gets no plaudits from within the club.
Politics I guess
 





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