Joseph Brian Mears (25 April 1931 – 28 July 2009) was the chairman of Chelsea Football Club.
He returned to the United Kingdom shortly afterwards and did his national service as a radio operator in the Royal Air Force.
[2] After leaving Chelsea, Mears relocated to the United States, where he was involved with several North American soccer teams and ran a car dealership in Long Beach, California.
Despite befriending Chelsea director Matthew Harding and chairman Bruce Buck in later years, he never set foot in Stamford Bridge again.
[3] Mears married June Ware in 1955 and they had two children: a son, Christopher; and a daughter, Suzanne.