Mary Earps: ‘I was in pure survival mode but barely surviving at all’

In an exclusive extract from her forthcoming autobiography, the former England goalkeeper reveals how her life unravelled during the Covid lockdowns of 2020In early 2020, on the eve of lockdown, Phil Neville, then head coach of England, dropped Mary Earps from the squad.For the first time ever, I began to feel something unimaginable; I felt disillusioned with football and unsure what I was doing in life, chasing this dream that was constantly in reach but never fully within my grasp. And then, abruptly, lockdown hit. And the world changed, at either the best possible time for me – or the very worst. Continue reading...

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