Earps, Hampton fallout: What we know so far from ex-England teammates

Two England women’s goalkeepers have hit the headlines recently, as Mary Earps’ new book has caused issues with current No. 1 Hannah Hampton, as well as England manager Sarina Wiegman. But what do we know and what else could happen soon?It began on Saturday, when excerpts from Earps’ autobiography “All In: Football, Life and Learning to be Unapologetically Me” were published in The Guardian, serializing the book ahead of its Nov. 6 release. In those excerpts, the 32-year-old launched a scathing attack on her former manager Wiegman — the same woman who brought Earps back into the Lionesses fold after she was dropped by previous boss Phil Neville — and on her successor Hampton, who saved two penalties in Euro 2025 final and won the inaugural Women’s Yashin Trophy for best goalkeeper at the 2025 Ballon d’Or.Earps claimed that “bad behavior” was being “rewarded” when Hampton was dropped from the England squad following the European Championship in 2022, before being brought back into the fold in early 2023. She was dropped for a string of seven games at then-club Aston Villa and Earps wrote that “behavior behind the scenes at the Euros [in 2022] had frequently risked derailing training sessions and team resources,” though offered no details or examples, explaining that she did not want to go into specifics or “speak badly about anybody else either.”- Mary Earps: No ‘bad blood’ with Hannah Hampton, ‘I told her that’ – Lucy Bronze makes history as FIFPRO Women’s World 11 revealed – Hamilton: Don’t stop believing: How the Lionesses won Euro 2025Earps described Wiegman’s handling of the situation as “bull—-” and said she believed the England manager should have been “more direct and honest from the jump.” Wiegman disagreed, and Earps writes that she felt “extremely disappointed.”Yet earlier in the book, Earps also described the Dutch manager and three-time Euros winner as taking “no nonsense when it came to bad behavior and created a culture where it would be addressed head-on to the point of isolating or removing people from the camp who wouldn’t adhere.”In the documentary, Hayes approached Hampton, sitting on the sidelines during training. The former manager said: “You should be down there, you should be helping her [then-No. 1 Zecira Musovic] for tomorrow. That’s what good teammates do.” She then gives Hampton two options: get out of your head for a minute or to go inside. Hampton says: “I’m happy watching” to which Hayes responds: “You’ve got to work on this” and coaxed her to get up and head over to the other goalkeepers training.Yet this was hardly unique to Hampton, who was only 21 at the time; plenty of footballers have displayed flashes of petulance early in their careers.Before Earps’ book entered the news cycle, Hampton had spoken glowingly of Earps to Glamour magazine last week. “Everyone’s trying to say that there’s bad blood between us, and it’s so horrible to see because if you question it, people are going to be like, she’s just doing this for that,” she said.