Beard enjoyed two hugely successful spells in charge of the Reds\u2019 women\u2019s team, winning back-to-back WSL titles in 2013 and 2014 as well as helping return them to the top flight with promotion as Championship champions in 2022. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy reaction was one of grief,\u201d Slot told Liverpoolfc.com. \u201cI met him last season and he not only did great things for this football club, for the women\u2019s team, back-to-back league titles, came back to [the] new women\u2019s team when they were playing one division below, so that tells you probably how much he loved the club as well. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you hear a thing like this, I think 47 if I\u2019m correct \u2013 that\u2019s my age as well at the moment \u2013 then [you are] devastated to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n
News of Beard\u2019s passing has been greeted by an outpouring of grief and condolences right across football, demonstrating the huge impact he made in the development of the women\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, his qualities as a man have been highlighted by all those fortunate enough to have worked with him throughout his career.<\/p>\n
Slot continued: \u201cI think in these moments the football world always shows itself at its best \u2013 and that\u2019s also what happened now. It\u2019s not only that he gets all the respect he deserves here at Liverpool but I think all around women\u2019s football. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve heard and also saw the respect the Arsenal fans showed him, so that tells you how much impact he had on the game of football. [But] then we only talk about football, I think the Melwood staff and everyone that worked with him liked him so much \u2013 and that\u2019s probably even a more important legacy to leave behind than the trophies you win. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat the person you are is always more important than what you\u2019ve won. But in his situation, both things were combined \u2013 so successful as a manager and a great human being.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beard enjoyed two hugely successful spells in charge of the Reds\u2019 women\u2019s team, winning back-to-back WSL titles in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1144,1042,1047,712,1043,16,15,1048,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-443661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","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-fc","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","22":"tag-liverpool-football-club","23":"tag-mane","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-reds","27":"tag-salah","28":"tag-scotland","29":"tag-the-reds","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-van-dijk","33":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115248892712140758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443661","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=443661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}