Dave Bamber
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John David Bamber | ||
| Date of birth | 1 February 1959 | ||
| Place of birth | Prescot, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1983 | Blackpool | 81 | (29) |
| 1983 | Coventry City | 19 | (3) |
| 1983–1984 | Walsall | 20 | (7) |
| 1984 | Portsmouth | 4 | (1) |
| 1985 | Trelleborgs FF | 4 | (1) |
| 1985–1987 | Swindon Town | 108 | (31) |
| 1988 | Watford | 18 | (3) |
| 1988–1989 | Stoke City | 43 | (8) |
| 1989–1990 | Hull City | 28 | (5) |
| 1990 | → Blackpool (loan) | 5 | (4) |
| 1990–1994 | Blackpool | 108 | (56) |
| Total | 438 | (148) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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John David "Dave" Bamber (born 1 February 1959) is an English former professional footballer.
Born in Prescot, Merseyside, in youth and junior football, Bamber played for Leicester University and St. Helens Town. Bamber began his professional career at Blackpool in 1979. His starting debut came on 29 December 1979, in a loss at Chester City. He scored his first goal for the Seasiders on 7 April 1980, in a league encounter against Carlisle United at Bloomfield Road. During the next four years of struggle, Bamber scored 36 goals in 100 games in all competitions under four different managers. Coventry City came in for his services prior to the 1983–84 season. Bamber moved to Walsall later in 1983, before a short stay at Portsmouth in 1984.
In 1985, he joined Swedish side Trelleborgs FF, making just four league appearances, scoring one goal, before moving back to England to play for Swindon Town later that same year. In two years with the Robins he made 108 league appearances, scoring 31 goals.
In 1988, he joined Watford with whom he made 18 league appearances and scored three goals before moving to Stoke City later that same year. In 1989, he joined Hull City, before returning to Blackpool in 1990 to bring his fifteen-year playing career to a close. He was re-signed by the Seasiders initially on loan, in December 1990, by the departing Graham Carr, who was immediately replaced by his assistant, Billy Ayre. "I signed for Graham Carr on the Thursday and got on the coach to go down to Hereford to find out that he'd been sacked," Bamber explained in 2012. "Nobody seemed to know what was going on. Billy Ayre got on the coach further down the M6." A month later, on 5 January 1991, shortly before kick-off in an FA Cup match against Tottenham Hotspur, new Seasiders manager Billy Ayre agreed to pay Hull £50,000 for Bamber.
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