{"id":680537,"date":"2026-05-19T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680537\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T09:49:09","slug":"hannah-hampton-england-keeper-says-media-focus-on-errors-can-tarnish-female-goalkeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680537\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Hampton: England keeper says media focus on errors can ‘tarnish’ female goalkeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hampton’s career has been far from smooth sailing, with the ex-Birmingham City goalkeeper hitting headlines when she was dropped from the England squad in 2022 shortly after their first Euros triumph.<\/p>\n

Reports said it was a result of her behaviour and she had to wait until March 2023 for a recall, when manager Sarina Wiegman said Hampton had “sorted out personal issues”.<\/p>\n

Speaking about that time, Hampton said the stories were “hurtful” and she later revealed on the Fozcast podcast she had considered quitting football.<\/p>\n

In November, Mary Earps – her former England team-mate and predecessor as number one – released an autobiography<\/a> which heavily criticised Hampton. <\/p>\n

Earps claimed she told Wiegman she was rewarding “bad behaviour” by recalling Hampton, who had previously been dropped for being “disruptive and unreliable”.<\/p>\n

Hampton, who kept eight clean sheets in 19 WSL appearances this season, says goalkeepers need to support each other.<\/p>\n

“I think goalkeepers hold a unique pressure that really only goalkeepers truly understand,” added Hampton.<\/p>\n

“When I see other goalkeepers making worldie saves, it pushes me and drives me. The women’s game, and goalkeepers especially, are getting to those standards that we hold ourselves to so highly. <\/p>\n

“We’re a group, a union. If we can’t rely on each other, then we can’t rely on anyone.”<\/p>\n

Charlton Athletic goalkeeper Sophie Whitehouse, a former team-mate of Hampton’s at Birmingham, won the WSL 2 Golden Glove award on Monday.<\/p>\n

Hampton says Whitehouse “deserves more credit” and believes she will play a star role in Saturday’s play-off match against Leicester City (12:30 BST).<\/p>\n

“Seeing the growth of where she’s got to right now isn’t spoken about enough,” said Hampton. <\/p>\n

“She was always pushing herself to reach high standards at the Blues. I’m sure she will make a lot more worldie saves to make sure Charlton get to the WSL and we’ll be competing with each other next season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampton’s career has been far from smooth sailing, with the ex-Birmingham City goalkeeper hitting headlines when she was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-680537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}