Stephen Vaughan

[Hendoblue]

Announced by his son earlier, Former Barrow AFC owner Stephen Vaughan has died

[walney rock]

[BarrowLad71]

Don’t agree with the celebration , wouldn’t have the club we have today or the stand without him.

Rest in Peace, hopefully he will get the stand re named after him

[Suffolk Blue]

I will not celebrate anyone’s death. But I won’t criticise anybody that chose to do so in this case. I’m sure that he must have had his good points but he nearly killed not one but two football clubs.

I can’t help thinking that if Vaughan was considered a fit and proper person to own a football club then my dog would probably have passed it too.

Despite the passage of time his methods can still be considered alongside those of Whittingham at Morecambe today and it is therefore perhaps fitting that his passing coincides with this latest manifestation of outrageous mismanagement. Just to remind us how much damage one man can do to a cherished institution. It never changes.

[greenarmour]

Good wind up BarrowLad71, yes let's forget our club legend Brian Arrowsmith and rename the stand after a dodgy Scouse criminal.
Clown

[Barrowvianbedlam]

Rest in [SwearFilter] Stephen

[BAFC_SAM]

I’ll drink to that one

[Lancaster Branch]

Rest in Peace, hopefully he will get the stand re named after him

I maintain we should have named the old Popular Side bogs in his honour.

Good riddance.

[SKIPPER]

Echoed on 'Deva Chat' the Chester forum with sentiments far more cutting and abusive, Apparently died in his parked car where he'd lain undiscovered for up to three hours. Fitting.

[Pedro]

Like Pontius Pilate we washed our hands of him

Stephen who?

[Cromwell58]

Like him or not the club needed him at the time or we would have gone under.

[Main Stand SeasonTct]

Like him or not the club needed him at the time or we would have gone under.

There is an element of truth in that but what enfolded during his tenure resulted in us nearly losing our very existence. He went on to do similar to Chester and Widnes vikings

[pjdaly]

I am possibly being naive here and taking the bait of a wind-up offered by BarrowLad71.

Like Suffolk Blue I will not now, or ever, celebrate anybody's death but, like Green Armour, I would ask whether BarrowLad71 knows who Brian Arrowsmith is and his role in the club's history.If not, BarrowLad71, then you should learn and then you'll know why the stand is named after him. I remember on this very forum many years ago, before the stand had been named and when we were under the ownership of Paul Casson, that I said it could only be named after Brian. And that viewpoint certainly remains the same now. Yes, of course there have been a number of great servants of our club but because what Brian did was unique then to me the stand had to be named after him. Totally absurd and ignorant to suggest it be re-named after Stephen Vaughan.

As I say, I think I have taken the bait here and it must be a wind-up.

[SKIPPER]

Don’t agree with the celebration , wouldn’t have the club we have today or the stand without him.

Rest in Peace, hopefully he will get the stand re named after him

You mean a stand that was quite likely paid for with the proceeds of a 'business' almost certainly responsible for the deaths of many young people. A 'business' model still being operated by his son not only in this country and Malta but possibly in Wales with a small club Flint Mountain who he has apparently just invested in.

[Lancaster Branch]

Like him or not the club needed him at the time or we would have gone under.

Fascinated to know how many people are still in the ‘like him’ column.

Very much a ‘not’ over here, if we’re tallying up.