Ex-football boss dies

TRIBUTES TO FORMER BOXING PROMOTER AND RUGBY CLUB CHIEF

- By BEN HASLAM ECHO Correspondent

THE former owner of Chester FC, Liverpool businessman Stephen Vaughan has died.

His son Stephen Vaughan Jr, a former Liverpool reserves player, posted on social media: “Absolutely devastated the best man I’ve ever known RIP Dad our hero.”

Liverpool-born former boxer Derry Mathews wrote on social media: “They say he only takes the best and he’s taking one of the greatest men ever, my first ever manager who got George out of retirement to train me, thank you for everything Ste people in the boxing world are going miss you.”