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Ex-football chairman who helped appeal to high celebs to Sandbanks dies aged 69

Eddie Mitchell, the previous Bournemouth chairman famed for turning Sandbanks into the ‘UK’s Miami Beach’, has died aged 69.

Former Bournemouth and Portsmouth chief Harry Redknapp is among the many military of millionaire celebrities who’ve flocked to Sandbanks in trendy occasions. And the checklist of different huge names noticed on the seaside vacation spot contains Liam Gallagher, Karl Pilkington and Rick Stein.

Mitchell was on the Cherries helm for 4 years, and it was underneath his stewardship that the south coast membership managed to convey Eddie Howe again in 2012. That resolution proved to be a turning level for the membership and has helped to usher in probably the most profitable interval in Bournemouth’s historical past.



Harry and Sandra Redknapp at home on Sandbanks
Harry and Sandra Redknapp have known as Sandbanks their residence for years now

However, property developer Mitchell made one other boardroom name that backfired tremendously. It was he who inspired Russian main share-holder Maxim Demin to take an curiosity within the membership – earlier than he was banned from the Vitality Stadium and advised by no means to return.

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