[情報] 前主席 Brian Mears 去逝

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http://chelsea.webhop.net 是日車聞摘要：2009-08-01 01 Aug 09 10:27 PM ＊前卻爾西球會主席布萊恩˙米爾斯 (Brian Mears) 剛與世長辭。他於1969年繼承其父接任球會主席，曾見證球隊在1970年擊敗里茲聯奪取足總盃冠軍以及翌年擊敗皇家馬德里奪取歐洲盃賽冠軍盃的輝煌成就。但可惜亦由於在此佳績下米爾斯矢志擴張球會而引致入不敷支，更間接導致球隊於1975及1979年兩度降班。最後他於1981年黯然下台移居美國，負債纍纍的球會也售予前主席貝茲 (Ken Bates)。但他對球會的熱愛不減，仍是史坦福橋的常客。2005年更被邀參予球會百周年慶典。球會對其逝世表示傷痛及哀悼《官網》 http://www.chelseafc.com/news/former-chairman-brian-mears-dies-20090731_2243 335_1739650 FORMER CHAIRMAN BRIAN MEARS DIES Posted on: Fri 31 Jul 2009 Brian Mears, chairman of Chelsea Football Club during one of its most successful and controversial periods, has died aged 78. Brian grew up at Stamford Bridge and right up to his final weeks he would fondly reminisce about the first football match he ever witnessed: Chelsea versus Dynamo Moscow to Stamford Bridge in November 1945, attended by an estimated crowd of more than 100,000. With him passes one of the last connections between Chelsea FC and its wealthy founding family. Brian was the grandson of Joseph Theophilus Mears, who backed his brother Gus's foundation of the club in 1905, and who became its landlord on his sibling's death in 1913. Brian's father, Joe Mears (Joseph's son), was chairman from 1940 to his sudden death in 1966, and had seen the club win its first league title in 1955; Brian eventually succeeded him in 1969, and his tenure coincided with success in the 1970 FA Cup final against Leeds United and the Uefa Cup-Winners' Cup final win over Real Madrid the following season. With his ostentatious fur coat, sunglasses and Rolls-Royce sporting the number plate 'CFC II', youthful chairman Brian symbolised Chelsea in the swinging Sixties. His match-day hospitality to visiting directors was legendary; though he once turned up at Ipswich Town with a whole salmon to be told by his jovial hosts, the Cobbolds, that he would have to cook it. http://www.chelseafc.com/javaImages/88/2a/0,,10268~6826632,00.jpg

Brian Mears Brian enjoyed the lifestyle if not the responsibility of such a high- profile position, and he admitted to being dogged by suggestions that he would never match up to his father, a domineering figure in the football world. (He did privately rather enjoy the fact that he won as many trophies as his more illustrious dad.) Under his stewardship the club took on a Hollywood lustre, especially as Richard, now Lord Attenborough brought a succession of his famous friends - John Mills, Laurence Olivier, Steve McQueen, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra and the like - to the Bridge. Brian loved to recall the legendary visit of Raquel Welch to the Bridge, and his having to break protocol to furnish her with brandy in the stands. 'Whatever people say about me,' he told me in 2005, 'they were the most glamorous, fabulous times, when I was chairman.' Yet many Chelsea fans remember Brian's tenure not for the glitz, nor the glory days at Old Trafford or in Athens, but for the fateful decision to embark on an ambitious ground redevelopment in 1971. Riven by inflation, labour disputes and lengthy delays, the scheme was eventually reduced to one side, the huge East Stand. The appalling drain on resources ruined the club's finances, leading directly to the break-up of the great late 1960s/early 1970s team and near-fatal relegations in 1975 and 1979. Two years after the second drop, Brian was ousted from the board. Just a few months ago he was still passionately regretting that decision to redevelop. Brian's role in the damaging sale of shares in the freehold of Stamford Bridge is less clear. The shares were bought by a property company that looked to realise much of the land for shops and housing and the football club was thrown into an attritional ten-year struggle for its existence that ended in 1992. Supporters understandably turned against the Mears family, and Brian's successor at Stamford Bridge, Ken Bates, publicly lambasted them for shaming their ancestors' legacy. Yet Brian maintained that his estranged wife, June, controlled his shares, not him. The former Chelsea chairman quit Britain for the United States soon after these debacles and proved himself, to immense personal satisfaction, with a very successful business venture. Determined to set the record straight about his Chelsea days, though, he returned to the UK in time to forge a friendship with Chelsea's fan and director Matthew Harding in the early 1990s. Mears claimed Harding, before his untimely death in 1996, was looking to 'rehabilitate' him at the club. Brian also wrote books to set out the Chelsea story from his personal perspective. He remained a lifelong supporter and followed results and events keenly, while never setting foot in Stamford Bridge again. In the Roman Abramovich era, current Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck involved Brian in events celebrating the centenary of the club in 2005, which delighted him. He was also invited by the club to the FA Cup final against Everton, but had to decline through illness. He succumbed to a heart problem on 28 July. Chelsea Football Club would like to express sincere condolence to Brian's family and friends. He is survived by his son Christopher and daughter Suzan, as well as five grandchildren. Brian Mears 1931-2009 Chelsea chairman: 1969-1981 Trophies won during his tenure: FA Cup 1970, Uefa Cup-Winners' Cup 1971 (also runners-up in League Cup 1972) By Rick Glanvill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.chelseafc.com/news/brian-mears-funeral-arrangements-20090803_22 43335_1742132 BRIAN MEARS FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Posted on: Mon 03 Aug 2009 The funeral of our former chairman, Brian Mears, will take place at 2pm on Monday, August 10 at Basingstoke Crematorium. Mr. Mears passed away after a heart problem on July 28, aged 78, and is survived by his son Christopher and daughter Suzan, as well as five grandchildren. He was chairman of the club between 1969 and 1981, overseeing our FA Cup win in 1970, as well as the Uefa Cup-Winners' Cup a year later. -- ★beemay 辛苦了 ★beemay 總長的人生總是崎嶇的 To beemay: 說得真好 ★beemay 我一直都很會講話 ★beemay 不然你的簽名檔哪來的 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 129.11.198.227 ※ 編輯: JamesCaesar 來自: 129.11.198.227 (08/04 07:38)