Overview

• Liverpool and Southampton observed a minute’s silence at Anfield, with players wearing black armbands and stadium tributes displaying “Matt Beard 1978–2025.”
• Liverpool Women will also pay respects at Wednesday’s League Cup match against Sunderland in St Helens.
• A JustGiving campaign launched by broadcaster Jacqui Oatley to help Beard’s wife Debbie and children Harry and Ellie exceeded its initial £5,000 target and now stands above £37,000.
• The fundraiser drew several hundred individual donations within about a day, with Oatley saying she was “blown away” by the community’s support.
• Beard, 47, managed Liverpool Women to back-to-back WSL titles in 2013 and 2014 and won the FA Women’s Championship on his 2021 return before later taking charge of Burnley Women.