{"id":114957,"date":"2025-10-31T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/114957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:03:07","slug":"mary-earps-being-dropped-for-hannah-hampton-felt-unjust-says-former-england-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/114957\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Earps: Being dropped for Hannah Hampton ‘felt unjust’, says former England keeper"},"content":{"rendered":"

But Earps, writing in her autobiography All In, which is out next week and extracts of which have been published in the Guardian,, external<\/a> said Hampton’s recall did not make her “feel comfortable” after the “disharmony the squad had felt before”.<\/p>\n

“I felt protective of the good energy we now had in goalkeeper training and the morale of the wider team,” she explained. “Bad behaviour is being rewarded.”<\/p>\n

Earps remained England’s number one for the 2023 Women’s World Cup where she was named the Goalkeeper of the Tournament, saving a penalty in the final as her side were beaten 1-0 by Spain.<\/p>\n

However, Hampton began to get more opportunities in 2024 and, when handed the starting spot, Earps admitted: “This felt unjust. My eyes welled with tears. <\/p>\n

“It was a choice that went against my core values. The affinity I had for Sarina and this job – one I’d given every last cell of myself to – was being destroyed, the trust and respect evaporating.”<\/p>\n

In April, 2025, Wiegman then told the Paris St-Germain keeper she was no longer considered England’s main starter.<\/p>\n

“I felt the weight of my heart sink to the floor and the relief that I finally had clarity lift from my shoulders all at once,” wrote Earps.<\/p>\n

With Euro 2025 coming up in June, she announced her retirement from international football.<\/p>\n

Earps said her initial decision was not accepted and agreed to think about it further – a decision she now regrets – before eventually calling time on her Lionesses career.<\/p>\n

Hampton, now 24, played all six matches at the Euros, saving two penalties in the decisive shootout against Spain in the final.<\/p>\n

In a separate interview with the Guardian, external<\/a>, Earps did not want to go into more details about the “disruptive behavior”, but added: “She is a very good goalkeeper and I’ve tried to draw a line under all that. I have messaged her privately to say, ‘look, no bad blood’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Earps, writing in her autobiography All In, which is out next week and extracts of which have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-114957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}