Taylor continued: \u201cI had big shoes to fill when I came in here, and I was really supported well by Matt. He phoned me on a number of occasions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d already had a decent relationship, he was a coach that I came up against over the last four or five years \u2013 he was at various clubs; Bristol, West Ham and obviously Liverpool. I loved my duels on the sidelines with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe both got animated\u2026 most of the time him more so than me! But what a guy, you never fell out with him. One of us would hold our hands up and say, \u2018I got it wrong.\u2019 And that\u2019s what you want.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to say, he\u2019s the most enjoyable to work with \u2013 in the sense of coming up against \u2013 in my time in the women\u2019s game. The legacy he has left, as a person firstly, because of the impression he left on the people he worked with at all of his clubs, particularly here at Liverpool. And then obviously his record as a gaffer.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe took Liverpool to the real heights of the game. The most decorated women\u2019s manager for Liverpool and I think that is only half of the story. The other half is the void he will leave as a person.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe served all of his clubs really, really well and definitely left an impression. As a person, as a coach, as an employee of a club, that\u2019s what you look for: to try to leave an impression, and you hope it\u2019s a good one. It certainly was with Matt. He left so many memories for people to hold onto.<\/p>\n
\u201cListening to some of the players who played under him, listening to Grace Fisk and the relationship she had with him \u2013 signing her first professional contract \u2013 and Ashley Hodson, who made so many appearances for Liverpool with Matt, seeing their comments on what he did for them, how they felt, it speaks volumes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The club has been mourning Beard\u2019s passing since Saturday, with Sunday\u2019s scheduled WSL fixture for Liverpool at Aston Villa postponed as a result.<\/p>\n
Taylor and his squad came together at the AXA Melwood Training Centre on Monday and held a minute\u2019s silence as a mark of respect before their session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor continued: \u201cI had big shoes to fill when I came in here, and I was really supported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-443603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","22":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","23":"tag-liverpool-football-club","24":"tag-mane","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-salah","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115248774805756557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}