‘One in a million’: tributes paid to Matt Beard at memorial service in Liverpool

Former Liverpool Women manager died last monthPlayers join friends and family in paying respectsFamily, friends, players and fans gathered to pay their respects to the former Liverpool Women manager Matt Beard on Friday as his life and career was celebrated at a memorial service in “the city he saw as his home”.Some had flown from overseas to join Beard’s wife, Debbie, children Harry and Ellie, stepson Scott, and mother, Margaret, at Liverpool’s Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral. Others had travelled after games and training for a service which celebrated a pioneering figure in women’s football, who died last month, aged 47. Continue reading...

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