Former Liverpool ladies’s supervisor Matt Beard was discovered hanged at his home earlier than dying, the coroner’s court docket has heard.
Coroner John Griffiths informed a listening to on Monday that paramedics had been known as to his house in Deeside, Flintshire, earlier than he was taken to hospital.
Beard died aged 47 within the the Countess of Chester hospital at 9.15pm on Saturday, October 20.
The coroner’s workplace in Ruthin, North Wales, heard that Beard suffered a ‘devastating mind damage’ attributable to hanging.
A full inquest will comply with at a later date after the listening to was adjourned.
Beard was in command of Liverpool twice throughout his 17-year profession in ladies’s soccer administration, successful back-to-back league titles in 2013 and 2014.
An outpouring of affection in direction of Beard flowed after information of his demise, with many paying tributes to an ‘icon’ of the ladies’s sport, as he was described by Manchester United boss Marc Skinner.
His brother, Mark, known as him the ‘most wonderful, caring man who was beloved by anybody who had the pleasure to fulfill him’.
His son, harry posted a touching tribute alongside photographs of them collectively, writing: ‘Love you dad, [19]78-[20]25. All the time will miss you.’
He wrote in a separate put up: ‘Suicide is rarely the reply, attain out. Name 111, or 999. Please do not take your individual life, all of us miss you dad.’
Harry added in one other put up: ‘By no means did not make me chortle, even when having a nasty day, he at all times used to say, “I wager I could make you smile” and he at all times did.’
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