Overview

• Broadcaster Jacqui Oatley launched a JustGiving appeal to support Matt Beard’s wife Debbie and children Harry and Ellie with funeral fees and living expenses.
• Set with a £5,000 goal, the page received roughly 536 donations totaling about £31,522 in under 24 hours.
• Oatley said she was “blown away” by the women’s football community’s response and the messages accompanying the donations.
• Liverpool FC announced on Saturday, September 20, that the former LFC Women manager had died suddenly at the age of 47, prompting widespread tributes.
• Beard led Liverpool to back-to-back WSL titles in 2013 and 2014, returned in 2021 to win the FA Women’s Championship, and most recently managed Burnley Women after leaving Liverpool in February.