Mike Bamber

[Billy in Bristol]

Any history of disputes with the Bloom family of days gone by?

 

[Barry Izbak]

Ron Pavey

Mike Bamber

Clough & Taylor

There has got to be room for these true Legends to be commemorated at the Amex.

Like others, I feel privileged to have been around to enjoy the extraordinary period from Clough's arrival to Wembley Way. How lucky we were.

 

[ExmouthExile]

Mike Bamber is a big part of this club's history, it's shameful that the club don't show any recognition of this!

 

[Rogero]

Great Chairman and great times.

Agreed,so exciting in that era.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

The Seagull Special.

 

[kevo]

Like others, I feel privileged to have been around to enjoy the extraordinary period from Clough's arrival to Wembley Way. How lucky we were.

Barry, have you got any more film footage from that era that hasn't seen the light of day?

 

[aliakbanrafsanjali]

Name the approaches Bamber way? Great great times, tightly packed stands, the excitement and buzz was just amazing! Thanks MB

 

[Cheshire]

Echo the sentiment of others for the Mike Bamber years at the club - the glory years indeed and yes what a privilege to have been around to have experienced it. A man who dared believe that anything was possible for Brighton and Hove Albion.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Mike Bamber

Clough & Taylor

There has got to be room for these true Legends to be commemorated at the Amex.

Like others, I feel privileged to have been around to enjoy the extraordinary period from Clough's arrival to Wembley Way. How lucky we were.

Agree with all of that apart from Clough. He did raise the profile of the club, but that's about all.

 

[Seagull58]

I said years ago that they should replace the Clock Tower with a statue of Mike Bamber but, now that we have the AMEX, I'll settle for a Bamber Stand or a statue on the concourse. He changed this club in an incredible way. Truly the Glory Days never to be repeated (so far).

 

[Paskman]

Didn't he replace Norman Wisdom on the Board. The beginning of the best of times, even then though one man couldn't do it all which is why it is so sad that KW died so tragically.

 

[Lawro's Lip]

I have great respect for Mike Bamber and what he achieved for the club. They were great days to be an Albion supporter promotions from league 3, the dart of the Palace rivalry, in the top tier of English football, beating European Champions Forest away against the odds and with a squad that still stands out as full of exciting players - Lawrenson, Ward, Robinson, Maybank ( . Bambers visionary thinking and backing with cash certainly helped put Brighton on the map, first by luring Clough and then appointing Mullery , an unproven manager at the time. Interestingly not every decision he made was popular then nor would be now. Sussex by theSea was ditched for the theme from Rocky as we're the stripes, seen by Bamber as old fashioned and the wrong image for a modern club. I forgive him though. Great memories.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Clough and Taylor appoionted Ken Gutteridge (manager of Burton) as a coach and he brought Peter Ward with him or rather recommended him. Nobody including the scouts had ever heard of him prior to that, so the credit for Wardy must go to KG.

Brighton actually bid for Ward when Ken Gutteridge was manager of Burton.

You can read my piece on the official Albion website:
http://www.seagulls.co.uk/news/article/albion-to-albion-the-peter-ward-story-part-one-1937104.aspx

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I thought Taylor spotted him as a kid when Taylor was manager at Burton. Read somewhere he signed him three times, Burton, Us and Forest. Clough never wanted him especially at Forest hence why he never played him.

Sorry for ruining a good anecdote. Ward was only with Burton for a single season, 1974/75. Peter Taylor managed Burton in the 1960s.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Mike Bamber, jazz drummer

 

[Weststander]

Mike Bamber and Keith Wickenden helped bankroll the most exciting and successful era in the club's history. With far more successes from player recruitment than flops. It was great at that time to be one of 33,000 supporters packed in the ground, watching winning football of a club on the rise. When the next Board (inept and ungenerous) took over, and then the land-grabbers after that, that we looked back and realised how truly great the Bamber years had been.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

The famous 'They can because they think they can' picture on the wall

 

[portslade seagull]

Bamber is a legend and my happiest memory's are with him at the helm

 

[Tory Boy]

Just think if he didn't leave us we wouldn't have had those dark years.

Both Dick and Tony love the club as much as us, but Mike led us to the top league, and I will forever be grateful for what he done for our club.

He should be on the legends boards.

TB

 

[Barry Izbak]

Barry, have you got any more film footage from that era that hasn't seen the light of day?

Not me, I fear you confuse me with perhaps [MENTION=144]goldstone_Rapper[/MENTION] and his excellent site

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