A YOUTH football coach has died after falling ill on his on a long-haul flight home to the UK.

Tributes have been pouring in for “much-loved” dad Matt Milne, 43, who reportedly suffered a deep vein blood clot in his leg when coming back from Singapore.

The software programmer from Whitstable, Kent, could not be revived despite the efforts of off-duty paramedics on the plane.

Matt was an under-14s team coach for the town’s football club and was hugely popular with young players.

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He also ran a bar in the Kentish coastal town.

On Wednesday, Matt’s his wife Francesca said she and their children, Will, 13, and Annabel, ten, have been left “utterly devastated”.

“Matt was just an amazing husband and dad,” Francesca told KentOnline.

“He had never had any health problems and was reasonably fit, so it has come as a huge shock.”

The couple, who met as freshers at Manchester University 25 years ago, were due to celebrate their 19th wedding anniversary this coming Sunday.