As @The-AllMightyReds suggests, stay in Liverpool on the night and go from there.
The other option is National Express coach - they often run to the airports direct, albeit Gatwick’s South of London so no fun on a coach compared to Heathrow.
Example - there’s a coach from Liverpool One down to Heathrow on Sat night that gets you to Heathrow for 5.35 AM
Hahaha…what an experience! We ended up making it back to London but man that was a long travel. Also, they wouldn’t let us go down closer to the pitch when they were warming up. We had to stay in our area
yeah that’s a long fucking day to have to travel back to London same day.
we had an AirBNB close to center of town for a couple days then did our flights from Manchester to Heathrow to Toronto to Vancouver in one looooooong day. think it was second only to my Vancouver>Singapore via Incheon