Women's Football Weekly: Remembering Matt Beard

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ben Haines, Ellen White and Jen Beattie remember the former Liverpool manager Matt Beard who has died at the age of 47. Natasha Dowie who played under Beard with Liverpool, Charlton Athletic and Boston Breakers tells us about ‘Beardy’ and her experiences with him which started at the age of 17 when she joined Charlton Athletic.

Tash followed Matt to Boston Breakers and Liverpool where she finished her career and talks to us about how she always wanted to make him proud. Senior Women’s football reporter Emma Sanders joins the podcast who got to know Matt while at university and their friendship off the pitch over the years, including pints at the pub!

Former German international Julia Simic who played under Beard at West Ham tells us she went there because of Matt Beard and how he has heavily impacted her as a coach now.

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0:51.9	Hey everyone, we wanted to bring you a really special episode of the Women's Football Weekly on the Football Daily Feed today, as we remember the former Liverpool, Chelsea West Ham and Millwall manager Matt Beard, who very sadly died on Saturday at the age of 47.
1:07.7	Matt Beard's wife, Deb, wrote on social media, it's with great sadness that our beautiful Matthew Beard has passed away tonight.
1:14.7	And that was on Saturday at 7.28 p.m.
1:18.3	He's a loving husband, father, son, brother and uncle.
1:23.1	He was the most amazing, caring man who was loved by anyone who had the pleasure to meet him.
1:28.5	All of our family kindly asked for time to grieve in peace at his loss. We'll love you forever,
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