Former Liverpool supervisor Matt Beard reason for demise confirmed: Girls’s soccer ‘icon’, 47, was discovered hanged at his house

Former Liverpool ladies’s supervisor Matt Beard was discovered hanged at his home earlier than dying, the coroner’s court docket has heard. 

Coroner John Griffiths advised a listening to on Monday that paramedics had been known as to his house in Deeside, Flintshire, earlier than he was taken to hospital. 

Beard died aged 47 within the Countess of Chester hospital at 9.15pm on Saturday, September 20. 

The coroner’s workplace in Ruthin, North Wales, heard that Beard suffered a ‘devastating mind harm’ attributable to hanging. 

A full inquest will comply with at a later date after the listening to was adjourned, as per the BBC and The Athletic. 

Beard was accountable for Liverpool twice throughout his 17-year profession in ladies’s soccer administration, successful back-to-back league titles in 2013 and 2014. He was most not too long ago accountable for Burnley, however resigned after two months in cost. 

Soccer was plunged into shock and grief when it emerged that Beard had handed away

An outpouring of affection in the direction of Beard flowed after information of his demise, with many paying tributes to an ‘icon’ of the ladies’s recreation, as he was described by Manchester United boss Marc Skinner. 

His brother, Mark, known as him the ‘most superb, caring man who was cherished by anybody who had the pleasure to fulfill him’.

His son, Harry, posted a touching tribute alongside images of them collectively, writing: ‘Love you dad, [19]78-[20]25. All the time will miss you.’

He wrote in a separate publish: ‘Suicide is rarely the reply, attain out. Name 111, or 999. Please do not take your personal life, all of us miss you dad.’

Harry added in one other publish: ‘By no means didn’t make me giggle, even when having a foul day, he at all times used to say, “I wager I could make you smile” and he at all times did.’

Premier League and Girls’s Tremendous League golf equipment have since paid tributes to Beard forward of their matches.

Liverpool’s ladies’s group honoured him by singing Matt Beard’s Mighty Reds within the thirteenth and 14th minutes in opposition to Sunderland final week. One banner learn: ‘Liverpool was made for Matt and Matt was made for Liverpool.’

Defender Jenna Clark mentioned: ‘Prior to now few days we have additionally been reminiscing about all of the tales of “Beardy” in coaching and the kind of particular person he was.

Fara Williams was a part of Beard’s back-to-back title successful Liverpool groups in 2013 and 2014 and located again the tears as she paid tribute to him on BBC Sport

‘It has been actually tough, it is not been numerous time. Numerous workers and gamers have been up and down.

‘We keep in mind him so properly and there have been some good tales being shared so we have had smiles on our faces at occasions. He would have preferred that. We’ll keep in mind him because the pleased character he was.’

Former Chelsea boss Emma Hayes describing Beard as a ‘champion of the ladies’s recreation’.

The USWNT boss wrote: ‘Cannot fairly compute this. Completely among the best people.

‘All the time accessible for a chat, one of many good guys. A champion within the ladies’s recreation and a high bloke. So gutted for his household.’

He started teaching within the ladies’s recreation in 2008, and had stints at Chelsea, Millwall Lionesses and West Ham alongside Liverpool.

Chelsea mentioned in a press release that Beard ‘helped form Chelsea Girls’ throughout his three-year tenure and credited him for ‘laying a lot of the foundations’ forward of Hayes changing him in 2012 earlier than she launched into a trophy-laden spell.

He went on to win WSL titles in his first spell accountable for Liverpool, between 2012 and 2015. On returning to the membership in 2021, he secured promotion again into the highest flight in his first season, earlier than guiding them to a fourth-placed end in his second.