Mike Bamber was the Chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion from October 1972. He famously brought Brian Clough

Brian Clough

Brian Howard Clough, OBE was an English footballer and football manager. He is most notable for his success with Derby County and Nottingham Forest. His achievement of winning back-to-back European Cups with Nottingham Forest, a traditionally moderate provincial English club, is considered to be...

 to the club later that year and then appointed Alan Mullery

Alan Mullery

Alan Patrick Mullery MBE is a former English football player and manager. After enjoying a successful career with Fulham and in the 1960s and 1970s, he became a manager working with several different clubs. He is now employed as a television pundit...

, who led the football club to the First Division in the 1978/79 season. He also appointed Jimmy Melia

Jimmy Melia

Jimmy Melia is a former English footballer who spent most of his career playing for Liverpool and went on to become a manager.-Liverpool:Jimmy joined the Reds straight from St...

 as Manager who led the club to their one and only FA Cup Final

FA Cup Final

The FA Cup Final, commonly referred to in England as just the Cup Final, is the last match in the Football Association Challenge Cup. With an official attendance of 89,826 at the 2007 FA Cup Final, it is the fourth best attended domestic club championship event in the world and the second most...

 in 1983. After relegation in the 1982/83 season, Mike Bamber stood down after the most dramatic 11 years in Brighton & Hove Albion's history.

Personal History

Mike Bamber was a property developer before becoming Chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion.

On July 11, 1988 Mike Bamber, the 57 year old former chairman of the club, died at his home in Jersey

Jersey

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.

"Mike Bamber" appears towards the end of the 2009 movie "The Damned United". He meets Peter Taylor & Brian Clough in a lounge at a Brighton seafront hotel to discuss terms with the management duo. The scene lasts for one one minute. The actor Paul Bown

Paul Bown

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, of the TV Series Watching, The Last Patrol and Pirates played the role.

In his 1994 autobiography, Clough said that Bamber was the nicest and best chairman he ever worked for, and if Bamber had been alive, and Clough was tempted to come out of retirement, Bamber's would have been the offer he would have taken.